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- From: simonich@croatia.eng.hou.compaq.com (Chris Simonich)
- Subject: Re: Don't blame lawyers!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.195140.4955@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- References: <1ha35qINN5ne@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec26.182617.643@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1hn68aINNjag@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:51:40 GMT
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- In article <1hn68aINNjag@life.ai.mit.edu> joltman@cookie-crisp.ai.mit.edu (T. Andy Frakes) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.182617.643@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >|> While that may have been a tactic you used to while away the hours in your
- >|> otherwise pointless existance, my posts have been designed to question the
- >|> positions stated by 'experts' and if said positions are the result of informed,
- >|> impartial decision-making.
- >
- >You seem to make a point of trying to pass yourself off as a well-educated
- >scholar by using eloquent wording. This sentence fragment, although humorously
- >insulting, is not that easy to decipher. If you are so concerned about your
- >image, you should take the time to proofread your posts.
- >
- >|> Just because YOU waste your life does not mean that everyone else is as
- >|> pointless as you.
- >
- >Again, if you want to sound intelligent and respectable (and you obviously
- >aspire to do so), it's usually not very convincing to lower yourself to simply
- >insulting people whose viewpoints you don't agree with. If you can't think of
- >an intelligent response, it's best to just say nothing at all. Otherwise you'll
- >just make yourself sound more ignorant than you are.
- >
- >|> Make no mistake, my attacks are entirely serious.
- >
- >They seem to be seriously lacking in substance due to an overabundance of
- >fluff you put into them. You're so concerned with smearing your 'opponent' and
- >trying to make people think that you're the most intelligent person around (I
- >guess you assume that if you can make people think that you're the smartest, then
- >people will give more weight to your opinions or something) that you have little
- >space left over for the issue at hand.
- >
- >|> > Oh well. I think I'll start reading this thread for a while in case it
- >|> > proves interesting.
- >|>
- >|> Not with such un-educable people as yourself jumping in...except, of course, to
- >|> those who have similar degrees of repsect for legitimate questions.
- >
- >The only reason I jumped in was to point out a little irony about a certain
- >poster, regardless of my repsect for legitimate questions.
- >
- >================================================================
- >= T. Andy Frakes (joltman@ai.mit.edu) =
- >= =
- >= This user does not believe in smiley faces. Insert your own =
- >================================================================
-
- Come on now kids, be nice......
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