From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga Blitter 40% slower than Atari Blitter (???)
Date: 7 Oct 1992 08:21:54 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <1992Oct7.050321.3116@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   The biggest Amiga killer is Commodore.  With so little support for the
>machine in the U.S., with few improvements in marketing here, and with 
>Commodore's U.S. subsidiary losing more than $20 Million per year for the
>parent company, it is safe to say that the Amiga is dead here.

Thank you, Marc "CDTV is dead" Barrett, from that little piece of
information from the local mortuary.  I don't know what we'd all do,
living in the little imaginary worlds with little imaginary friends,
without you, our pillar of reality in a sea of illusions.  For even
when we, mere mortals, see what we believe to be blue skies, you
insist on telling us it is night, the sun has fallen from the sky,
never to return.

You've got this fetish with calling things dead, and I'm not sure
whether it's just some repressed sexual attraction towards necromantic
rituals involving big, steel-tipped, sharpened dildoes, or if you're
just on a whole lot of pcp. I don't know how many times its been said,
but you obviously have a problem with discerning someone who believes
that as long as C= is a company it has a chance with someone who
actually gives a flying f*ck about your opinions.  You constantly post
your outlandish drivel about how C= is dead, CDTV is dead, AmigaVision
is dead...  and you back it up with things you "hear from friends",
unsubstantiated "facts", or just blatant lies.  Everyone who knows you
knows you're a developer.  Some people give that credit.  Those of us
who know the very LITTLE that developers actually get told know a hell
of a lot better that you're just spewing off things just to do it.

If you'd DO something with that developer's status, perhaps you could
become a commercial developer and actually have half of the
information you claim to.  Fortunately, that's got an ice cube's
chance in hell of actualy happening, because I honestly believe you're
too incompetent to do anything ground-shattering.

You've got this magical way of getting on peoples nerves, and it's
about time I said all of this to you, even if it is through the news
system.  People are tired of hearing it, I don't know if you noticed.
For a while, everything was fine.  Maybe you had some homework or
something, but for some reason, you had shut up, even if for a little
while.  It's amazing how quickly one can grow attached to the "quiet
times" between your postings, the time when the only stupidity in the
group comes from non-Amiga users and people who just got their net
access.  And yes, Marc, THAT is a joke.  Because I wouldn't MAKE a
statement like that without following it with a generous supply of
smileys.  However, you constantly make that same KIND of statement,
having the same impact, when you whine, rant, and drivel the kinds of
famous statements you're best known for.

>   And please trim your signature to five lines or less.  I am not impressed
>with your ability to scan an image and run a bitmap-to-ascii utility on it.

And on top of that, you're even an impolite asshole.  How rude.

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