Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!flash From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Abusive news article Summary: appropriately abusive Keywords: mental cripples re: "can" vs. "may" & authority Message-ID: <1157@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 12 Jul 89 19:10:47 GMT References: <580@axis.fr> Reply-To: @nsf.ac.uk:flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Mathematical Institute, Oxford OX1-3LB Lines: 28 philip@axis.fr (Philip Peake) writes: >In article <1139@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> appeared the following: >}In article <571@axis.fr> philip@axis.fr (Philip Peake) writes: >}>In article <3631@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: >I really don't understand what is being said here - if anyone else does, >I would be glad to know. It meant that (a) your thinking (or writing) was insufficiently careful, and (b), that you recommend obedience to abuses of governmental authority. >I have the feeling that I am being insulted ? >If so why ? and what is it supposed to add to the discussion ? If the shoe fits... [I admit that reasonable men can differ on (b). I'm an American living in England; we've sometimes differed with them.] >If you don't have anything sensible or constructive to say, then just >keep your fingers off the keyboard ! Please read & write more carefully before posting. I've been asked to take this argument off-line, which is where your complaint belonged, if anywhere. -- --- From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Reply-To: sheridan@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom