Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!mipos3!cadape!dmccart From: dmccart@cadape.intel.com (D. J. McCarthy ~) Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Re: Thomas A Dowe, One Mighty Dumb Honky Message-ID: <1490@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 19 Jan 90 04:27:28 GMT References: <10976@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <7846@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> <1473@mipos3.intel.com> <7879@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Reply-To: dmccart@cadev4.UUCP (D. J. McCarthy ~) Distribution: alt Lines: 118 In <7879@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> tomd@pulsar.telcom.tek.com (TAD) writes: >In <1473@mipos3.intel.com> dmccart@cadev4.UUCP (D. J. McCarthy ~) writes: >>In <7846@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> tcmaint@tekigm2 (Thomas A. Dowe) writes: >>>I really delight in the number of people aligned against me. Know the >>>enemy is, and will always be, the prime objective of any warrior in life. >>1) "Know your enemy" does not mean "make as many enemies as you can". >Nice point, but it, itself, doesn't mean that you shouldn't know all >who will volunteer. So, your "point" turns out to be a non sequitur. As does yours. You are going out of your way, it seems, to make as many enemies as you can, and then trying to justify this by saying that you're somehow getting to "know" them by making them hate you. If you walked barefoot across a thumbtack-covered floor, are you better off now because now you "know" how many thumbtacks would "volunteer" to stick you in the foot? Better to wear shoes, or take a different route. >>2) You are hardly what I would call a warrior. >No one is anyone whom you would call a warrior. Else, list some. My father. Both my grandfathers. Any more stupid requests? [*** SPECIAL BONUS SECTION ***] [*** Hey Kids! Watch how mad you can make T@d by implying that he ***] [*** doesn't have any net.friends! ***] >>3) When it all comes down to it, you really have no idea just how many >> enemies you have made. [....] >> Know your friends, T@d; those pitiful few that have sent you mail or >> posted agreeing with you are the only non-enemies you've got. >DJ, you are a pitiful failure. Ooooooooo! >I expect that you are smart enough, but you don't have any edge. Double Oooooooooo!! >You are so dependent on someone, anyone, saying >that you "scored" on that one that you consider it a flame to accuse >another of its absence. Translation: "I don't need any of you! I can take care of myself! I'm ... um ... ANATOMONOUS! Yeah!" [*** Now watch as he _really_ loses it: ***] >Trying to project this dependency onto me isn't >very smart, either. It forces you to reveal your own efforts at misdirect- >ion and lies. You haven't any idea how much mail I receive. Even if you >did know, that would in itself reveal the extent of your own compulsion for >me. So transparent, so... I expect that is why you posted all those mis- >attributions once a week, or so, you wanted congratulations for making >fun of others. Typical. 1) "If you can't find a REAL problem with Deej's arguments, mention that you thought Fun With Usenet was stupid or showed a deep need to have friends." Works every time... NOT. Why? Because it's not true. 2) I'm not projecting anything on you that is not already a universal net.truth. When some people like what you've written, they go out of their way to send you mail saying so. I've been at both the sending and receiving end of this appreciation; I rather think that you have not. 3) Of course I have no idea how much "fan mail" (as opposed to "hate mail") you receive. But I can guess. The way you whine about not needing it, and blathering about projection and all that, tells me that I am not far off the mark when I estimate dreadfully low. You will of course deny this, and perhaps offer to post some proof. But I am not really interested in whatever proof you may be able to scrape up. Your own words have condemned you far more securely than any honest proof ever could. >>>From this, all his plans and tactics are formed. What is even better is >>>when the enemy provides you a list and calling it, "The Net.Idiot Award!" >> Your plans and tactics seem to be centered around making as many >>people as you can mad at you so that they will get really riled up and vote >>for you. >My plans involve having as many people see the real curmudgeons and their >slavish chauvinists as possible. Wait a second... I thought you were out to "know thy enemy", not "have the whole Net know thy enemy". We can figure out who the real curmudgeons are just fine without your help, thank you very much. Let's face it - how much will you REALLY know about anyone on the T@d For Net.Idiot list anyway? You will know their names (perhaps) and their email addresses (perhaps). You won't know anything about *them* - where they live, what they do, how old they are, what their speech patterns are, what their weaknesses are - *nothing* that will help you be a better "warrior" against them, the "enemy". I mean, let's face it - how much do you know about, say, Trish? Or Allen? Or *me*? Or any one of dozens of names I could rattle off that either don't like you in alt.flame or simply ignore you? How will this list make you a better "warrior"? You could put us all in your KILL file, but what about the ones that didn't vote for you? How about someone that you might want to *work for* in the future, who reads alt.flame now but doesn't post, who will be promoted to the managerial position of your dream job just in time to get your resume, look at the name on it, have a good giggle and plunk it straight into File 13? That person would be far more your "enemy" than all the voters COMBINED, and yet you have made that person an "enemy" and didn't "know" it! Better to not say anything, eh? _____ D. J. McCarthy Better to let this subject die... dmccart@cadev4.intel.com Goodnight, T@d.