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Rand Simberg wrote: On 10 Dec 2005 10:53:42 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Yes you believe that you did. With good cause, and no one disagreed, other than Mark. Which means precisely nothing in the context of a Blog comments thread - especially your blog. Where else would people have an opportunity to discuss it, and disagree? Do you realize how nutty you're sounding? Do you think that I censor blog comments that disagree with me? If so, do you have *any evidence at all* for it? It's a scurrilous charge. I'm not making any charge. That's you being hysterical - you wanted an example IIRC. Nor am I sounding nutty. The reality is not all people bother with responding, not all can, Mark, for example, doesn't have a comments field. I discussed some of the points in email directly with Mark and while we certainly have argued here over political issues and I certainly disagree with him over his foreign policy positions I found him to be logical, polite and very clear. Something you are frequently not. Especially, like now, when you are, as we say, "wound up". And we're also back to how you chose to sample data to support your perception. Fine. Where's the rest of the data, Dave? Show me some *other* discussion wherein Mark was declared right, and I mistaken, on that subject. "Delcared right"? By whom? In what context? This is the real world, it's not a high school debating society. What is right and wrong is highly fluid. It is certainly not decided by the consensus of opinion in the comments section of Transterrestrial Musings. It's your perception that's wrong, not the rest of us. Stick to engineering topics. At least you are generally safe in absolutes then. Thank f**k for that. Dave |
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Rand Simberg wrote: On 10 Dec 2005 10:59:35 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Private companies can contract from the government, I've few issues with that. I was thinking, specifically of the NASA study work you mentioned you had done. I did it as an employee of a private company. I'm not a civil servant. Never said you were. So, as an employee of a private company you accepted a contract role to work for a government agency which you spend a lot of your time decrying for it's waste of money of your own free will and volition? Of course. If there's something that I can do to improve the situation, and also get paid, why should I not? My "almost explosive reaction"? Can you actually point out an example of such an "almost explosive reaction"? I refer you to the irrate flame wars that follow you all over this newsgroup. Nothing "explosive" about that. Your hyperbole continues to amuse. (glances at the thread) - looks pretty explosive from here and that's without reading the content. I guess "explosive" is in the eyes of the beholder. Gee. You think? DO you want to include a couple on un-called for insults and name calling? [looks down post] - oh you did. Without including my current posts, you've attracted half a dozen other people, most of whom do not share your position, and to whom you have replied, sometimes agressively. "Agressively"? Do you know the meaning of the word? As I said, your hyperbole amuses. Just checked the dictionary, just case I was wrong. Nope. In particular: Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion: If you don't find how you are behaving here, especially with your comments about reading comprehension then you've a problem. It was a direct response to your hyperbolic and hilarious statement regarding: "your almost explosive reaction to anything tainted with government direct cash and government space..." Then we have a split personality - the online rand Simberg is a raving free-market alt-space monster whereas Rand the person is obviously a great pall and probably kind to kittens. A "raving free-market alt-space monster"? That's how you come across. Dave |
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Herb Schaltegger wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:19:21 -0600, Dave O'Neill wrote (in article . com): Anybody have any stats on how big this news group actually is? Someone who archives the group (*cough* OM *cough*) ought to download statnews.pl and analyze the posts. To be fair to Rand, I'm not all that fussed to go to the bother of collating that particular data set and then deal with the obvious word wrangling and denial it would lead to. I've a pretty good idea of what the results would be. Anyway, I'm now pretty tired of this and will try to go back to ignoring Rand like I did after his comments on torture. Dave |
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Dave O'Neill wrote: Rand Simberg wrote: On 10 Dec 2005 10:59:35 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Private companies can contract from the government, I've few issues with that. I was thinking, specifically of the NASA study work you mentioned you had done. I did it as an employee of a private company. I'm not a civil servant. Never said you were. So, as an employee of a private company you accepted a contract role to work for a government agency which you spend a lot of your time decrying for it's waste of money of your own free will and volition? Of course. If there's something that I can do to improve the situation, and also get paid, why should I not? My "almost explosive reaction"? Can you actually point out an example of such an "almost explosive reaction"? I refer you to the irrate flame wars that follow you all over this newsgroup. Nothing "explosive" about that. Your hyperbole continues to amuse. (glances at the thread) - looks pretty explosive from here and that's without reading the content. I guess "explosive" is in the eyes of the beholder. Gee. You think? DO you want to include a couple on un-called for insults and name calling? [looks down post] - oh you did. Without including my current posts, you've attracted half a dozen other people, most of whom do not share your position, and to whom you have replied, sometimes agressively. "Agressively"? Do you know the meaning of the word? As I said, your hyperbole amuses. Just checked the dictionary, just case I was wrong. Nope. In particular: Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion: If you don't find how you are behaving here, especially with your comments about reading comprehension then you've a problem. Please insert an "actively hostile" after the "behaving here". I really should not press _post_ so quickly. Dave |
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On 10 Dec 2005 10:07:50 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: No, actually I didn't. That's how you read it and your mind warped it in the process. I believe I accused you of suckling at the government teat - in particular government space acitivty which you then slag off. Quote: "you certainly are prepared to suckle from the government teat to keep a roof over your head." Which translated into: "working for big aerospace" when parsed through your brain. I was specifically referring to your work with government space agencies which I believe you said you have been doing around fuel depots? No. Unless by "work with government space agencies" you mean work for government contractors with government contracts. Is that "suckling from the government teat"? Private companies can contract from the government, I've few issues with that. I was thinking, specifically of the NASA study work you mentioned you had done. I did it as an employee of a private company. I'm not a civil servant. I see no issue with you working for Big Aerospace companies in your position, but I do find given your almost explosive reaction to anything tainted with government direct cash and government space that this is a little hypocritical. A trait you seem to hate in others. My "almost explosive reaction"? Can you actually point out an example of such an "almost explosive reaction"? I refer you to the irrate flame wars that follow you all over this newsgroup. Nothing "explosive" about that. Your hyperbole continues to amuse. Your almost compulsive need to respond to every micro thread with every person who has the rank audacity to disagree with one of your positions. If I really did that, I'd have no time for anything else. Idiots abound. More nonsense and hysteria on your part, apparently. Some of my best friends work for the government, and the government space programs. Sorry to disappoint. Jolly good for them, a fact which is utterly irrevelent to this conversation and thread. It was a direct response to your hyperbolic and hilarious statement regarding: "your almost explosive reaction to anything tainted with government direct cash and government space..." You've sucessfully moved the topic away from the substantive too. Well done. It was never there. |
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On 10 Dec 2005 10:19:21 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Rand Simberg wrote: Poster after poster? I can count them on my fingers. This is a much bigger newsgroup than that. I count 10 including ignoring some of the stranger handles and "odd" posters who hang around here. I'm basing my list on: me, Pat, Scott, Alan F, Marcus L, Eric, OM, Greg, Herb, Sander. The only ones I'd put on that list are you, Scott, and Eric. The others I often disagree with, but they're generally logical, and can clearly communicate in English (both reading and writing), and don't get hung up on non-sequiturs. In any event, even if that were the list, as I said, they can be counted on my fingers... |
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On 10 Dec 2005 10:13:43 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Given what you, yourself call people on and off Usenews - thinking for a moment of your rabid diatribes about what an idiot and mental deficient Mark Whittington is I've never called him either. You called him "clueless" on several occasions on November 28 on your Blog. You questioned his reading comprehension then and on several other occasions. You accused him of "fantasies" about what you write then too. All of which were demonstrably true. No, they may be true to you but they're certainly not _true_ to other people. Heh. We're back to Randian Cows again. I cited what I wrote. I cited what he wrote about I wrote. I pointed out the major disconnect between the two. Yes you believe that you did. With good cause, and no one disagreed, other than Mark. Yes we were. Not you, apparently. This has got to be a really boring topic for the newsgroup, since only readers of my blog have any idea what David is raving about now, and I'm not going to discuss it here any more. In the unlikely event that anyone is actually interested, here are the relevant posts: http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...37.html#006037 http://www.transterrestrial.com/arch...79.html#006079 |
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On 10 Dec 2005 10:53:42 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Yes you believe that you did. With good cause, and no one disagreed, other than Mark. Which means precisely nothing in the context of a Blog comments thread - especially your blog. Where else would people have an opportunity to discuss it, and disagree? Do you realize how nutty you're sounding? Do you think that I censor blog comments that disagree with me? If so, do you have *any evidence at all* for it? It's a scurrilous charge. I can show you many blog threads in which people have disagreed with me in comments. I always let them stand because a) they're occasionally right, and I'm proven wrong or b) they are self-evident of the lack of knowledge, logic (and often class) of the commenter. And we're also back to how you chose to sample data to support your perception. Fine. Where's the rest of the data, Dave? Show me some *other* discussion wherein Mark was declared right, and I mistaken, on that subject. rolling eyes |
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On 10 Dec 2005 10:59:35 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Private companies can contract from the government, I've few issues with that. I was thinking, specifically of the NASA study work you mentioned you had done. I did it as an employee of a private company. I'm not a civil servant. Never said you were. So, as an employee of a private company you accepted a contract role to work for a government agency which you spend a lot of your time decrying for it's waste of money of your own free will and volition? Of course. If there's something that I can do to improve the situation, and also get paid, why should I not? My "almost explosive reaction"? Can you actually point out an example of such an "almost explosive reaction"? I refer you to the irrate flame wars that follow you all over this newsgroup. Nothing "explosive" about that. Your hyperbole continues to amuse. (glances at the thread) - looks pretty explosive from here and that's without reading the content. I guess "explosive" is in the eyes of the beholder. Without including my current posts, you've attracted half a dozen other people, most of whom do not share your position, and to whom you have replied, sometimes agressively. "Agressively"? Do you know the meaning of the word? As I said, your hyperbole amuses. It was a direct response to your hyperbolic and hilarious statement regarding: "your almost explosive reaction to anything tainted with government direct cash and government space..." Then we have a split personality - the online rand Simberg is a raving free-market alt-space monster whereas Rand the person is obviously a great pall and probably kind to kittens. A "raving free-market alt-space monster"? Check your meds, Dave. |
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On 10 Dec 2005 11:14:01 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Which means precisely nothing in the context of a Blog comments thread - especially your blog. Where else would people have an opportunity to discuss it, and disagree? Do you realize how nutty you're sounding? Do you think that I censor blog comments that disagree with me? If so, do you have *any evidence at all* for it? It's a scurrilous charge. I'm not making any charge. That's you being hysterical - you wanted an example IIRC. That's not hysteria. Putting it in all caps and punctuating it with several exclamation marks could be categorized as that, but not the calm, objective statement that I made. "Explosive"..."hysterical"..."aggressive"..."monst er"... I don't think that these words mean what you think they mean. Nor am I sounding nutty. OK. Whatever. The reality is not all people bother with responding, not all can, Mark, for example, doesn't have a comments field. I discussed some of the points in email directly with Mark and while we certainly have argued here over political issues and I certainly disagree with him over his foreign policy positions I found him to be logical, polite and very clear. Something you are frequently not. Especially, like now, when you are, as we say, "wound up". "Wound up." More words that you don't know what they mean, apparently. And we're also back to how you chose to sample data to support your perception. Fine. Where's the rest of the data, Dave? Show me some *other* discussion wherein Mark was declared right, and I mistaken, on that subject. "Delcared right"? By whom? In what context? This is the real world, it's not a high school debating society. What is right and wrong is highly fluid. It is certainly not decided by the consensus of opinion in the comments section of Transterrestrial Musings. No, it is decided by logic and facts. I laid them out. Mark had no response, except to change the subject. No one disagreed. |
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