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From: mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS)
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Subject: Re: ONE WEEK TO CALL FOR VOTE
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Date: 5 Mar 91 13:17:54 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.030117.17209@rodan.acs.syr.edu> rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu
(Rich Holmes) writes:
>If I were a non-48 user, I might be exasperated enough with infinite versions
>of Tetris, infinite "How do I find out my ROM version", infinite "Let's flame
>HP for giving away equation cards and upgrading old calculators", ad nauseum,
>to vote in favor of kicking the 48 users out.  But as a 48 user, the proposed
>split does nothing to benefit me or most of the rest of us.  
>
>I'm going to vote against.
>
-----FLAME ON-----
Excuse me, but this is just a little too petty and self-centered to go
unanswered. Why is it that you cannot see that benefitting someone else does
nothing to benefit you? Why do people insist on treating this as physical
property that is being wrested from them? This is just a reorganization to
better serve a segment of the community, and does not adversely affect anyone
interested in the latest Tetris version. If the vote fails, I suppose we can
try again with comp.sys.handhelds.not.HP48sx.damn.it, but is there any reason
why anyones ego should be so fragile as to warrant such measures?
-----FLAME OFF-----
Sincerely, I have better things to do with my time. I have book chapters
overdue to publishers, undergraduate and graduate students running amok,
residents who are daily testing the limits of what it takes to kill people, an
administration that wants to spend $1,100,000 of the $3,500,000 computer budget
I fought to get them on consultants to tell them it was a good idea, an OR that
needs a total reorganization of its data management, a respiratory therapy
department that needs a software interface to their blood gas machines
yesterday, a wife who wants to drop out of business school so she can go to law
school, and a two year old daughter. If you people think you have the direct
line to God, fine, just leave it at home when you sign on the air.

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Asst Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA