Delta V - Launch Vehicles for Rationalists and Adventurers

On Jan 11, 8:45*am, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:19:44 -0800, in a place far, far away, Dale
Carlson made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Once again, you have to back up your deranged fantasies with actual
quotes and citations if you want *anyone* (except those as insane as
you) to believe you. *The only reason that you're not in my killfile
(since you never, ever write anything of value or worth reading) is to
defend myself against your almost-constant lies and delusions about
me.

Rand, as much as I usually disagree with you, I don't consider you to
necessarily be mentally unbalanced. But the fact that you never cease
to engage in debate with nutters makes me wonder if I'm being too
generous in my assessment of you.

I often cease to do so. *If I "never" ceased to do so, I'd have
nothing else to do in life, considering how many nutters there are in
this newsgroup. *For instance, Guth and Elifritz have been in my
killfile for years.

But since I keep teaching you stuff I am not.


You probably wouldn't need to
"defend (yourself) against (his) almost-constant lies and delusions
about (you)" if you didn't feel some compulsive desire to debate
"idiots"...

I have no such compulsion. *I rarely "debate" Ian, though I (as did
others) used to attempt to do so. *It's not in fact possible to debate
Ian, because he is (as you say) a nutter.

When I respond to him it all, it is almost always in response to some
new fantasy that he's spun about me, usually not even in response to
anything that I wrote in that particular thread--simply dredging it up
out of his past fantasies, or based on some deranged delusion of what
I wrote elsewhere, and dragging my name in for no reason. *

I will say, though, that I've almost reached the point at which his
nuttiness should be sufficiently obvious to most that it doesn't
really matter what new fantasies he comes up with, and I will simply
killfile him. *I don't killfile Eric (except in this newsgroup, per
our agreement) because I find his unremitting stupidity so
entertaining (and he occasionally makes a fool of himself by
mindlessly and ignorantly attacking me as well, as occurred the other
day at s.s.p over units of energy and power).

I like the long winded part of this sentence. Unit time Rand, unit
time.
I know it is 1/t and now you do too. Heheheh


In fact, overall, I've been thinking more and more that I may simply
abandon the newsgroups, as so many others have.

See ya!

*The S/N ratio here
continues to decline, and most of the interesting space discussion is
now taking place on the web, at Hobbyspace, Arocket, Space Politics,
and the space blogs (including occasionally mine).

Since your blog is so boooorrrring, you must come here. You should be
so good as you think you are but aren't hence the nastiness.