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From: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ONE WEEK TO CALL FOR VOTE
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Date: 5 Mar 91 15:03:13 GMT
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In article <6465@rex.cs.tulane.edu>, mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E
Mandel MD MS) writes:
>
|>In article <1991Mar5.030117.17209@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
|>rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu
|>(Rich Holmes) writes:
|>>> [...]                      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?

The question seems to be why do we hold our own opinions instead of your
opinions? Maybe some believe, as I do, that it's pointless and
short-sighted to split the group.  I'm sure others have reasons other
reasons for not wanting to do the split.  We're not petty or
self-centered.  We just believe you're wrong.

Why is *your* ego so wrapped up in splitting the group?  So much so that
you've given a declaration that if you can't split it one way, you'll
split it the other.  

|>-----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.
|>
|>

Why is this screed excused from the label "petty and self-centered"?  

Pick your name.  Have the vote.  Let that decide.  

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                                             >>>==>PStJTT
                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

If I was authorized to speak for my employer, I'd be too important to
waste my time on this crap....