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Subject: Re: Spin Doctors
From: cangel@famvid.com
Message-ID: <yg8h4.9285$NU6.403919@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>
Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:17:19 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-01-19 fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(FrankdaCruz) said:
CA> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
CA> In article <uX6h4.9163$NU6.392793@tw12.nn.bcandid.com>,
CA> <cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
CA> [ a lot of things ]
CA> Frank wants to rest on his laurels.
CA> There's nothing wrong with that -- it's the definition of
CA> society: people doing as little as they can get away with.
CA> How do we get people to do go away so we can feel important?
CA> Various ways spring to mind:
CA> . Obfuscate
CA> . Deny the obvious
CA> . Flaunt various titles and committees we belong to.
CA> . If all else fails blatant lying might work.
CA> Strategems that usually don't work include:
CA> . All of the above
CA> In any case, sometimes the desired service simply cannot
CA> be rendered because those who are being asked to provide
CA> it are incapable of doing it. It's been too long
CA> and they don't remember how they did it in the first place.
CA> In such cases, one must
CA> learn to do the work oneself, just as those whom you are
CA> asking to do it once did (but have long since lost the
CA> ability), or else give up on them and find someone who
CA> is still breathing.
JD> Personal attacks have no place here.
You mean comments about whining and things like that? Not something
that any of _you_ would do eh?
JIC you didn't notice your msg _is_ a personal attack Frank.
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