From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: KILL THE RICH!
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:32:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct05.165526.4191@watson.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.200901.17457@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>|> >Well, as this is the first time you've made that statement, I'm not
>|> >sure why you would expect me to respond to it before you made it.
>|> 
>|> Unfortunately, it is not the first time I've made that statement,
>|> John.  It's the first time I've wasted suffiecient time and bandwidth
>|> to explain all the reasonable assumptions that are implied in my
>|> statement.  I didn't bother with it before because it seemed quite
>|> obvious what they were. 
>
>Yeah I know.  Everything that you DON'T explicitly state is quite
>obvious to you.  The rest of us have to be mind-readers to discuss
>anything with you.

Pardon me for making the apparently fallacious assumption that we are
all speaking standard English here.  I will try to keep in mind that
there are apparently some people who cannot read even the most literal
interpretations and be more explicit for them.

>
>|> Because, as has been pointed out, it costs more to live closer to
>|> school.  This is true for practically ANY university unless it is
>|> located in a very large urban area, or such has been my experience.
>
>That's not the case in Austin or Albuquerque.  Both of these have
>"student ghetto" type housing near the universities.  But regardless,
>this is the point:  Is it really cheaper to live far away from school
>if you also have to buy a car to GET to school?  

Well, then things are apparently somewhat different in small cities in
the Southwest.  Other than that, yes, it is still cheaper even if you
have to buy an old junker to get back and forth to and from school
with (assuming you don't already have one, which is relatively rare in
the United States).

>Oh I forgot--you want
>the "rich" people to buy you front-door bus service, so that you can
>have your cake and eat it too...  

Apparently you 'forgot' because you invented that position for me in
the first place.  I have never taken that position and, in fact, think
that mass transit is typically so inefficient in newer Western cities
(as opposed to the older Eastern ones) that it is a waste of money.
You don't *have* to engage in mind-reading to talkj to me, John, but
you apparently sure WANT to do so.  Unfortunately, you appear to be
reading the wrong mind.

>
>|> >You have a chip on your shoulder
>|> >a mile wide, Fred.
>|> 
>|> I think it's really neat that you can say that, given that you know
>|> nothing about me.  Just what do I have this massive chip on my
>|> shoulder ABOUT, John?  If you know I have one, you certainly must know
>|> why it's there.  Enlighten me, pray tell.
>
>It's my observation based on what you write.  If somebody disagrees
>with you or posts something that you disagree with, you make a
>personal issue of it.  You go into attack mode, like somebody has just
>insulted your mother or something.

And this is not, perchance, a problem with your READING of my notes,
instead?  No, of course not.  Now that we've settled that, please go
back and read the article that this is in response to and then tell me
just who it is who has the 'chip' on their shoulder.

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