From: kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Subject: Re: Amiga Blitter 40% slower than Atari Blitter (???)
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Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:49:27 GMT

Gregory R. Block (bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct7.050321.3116@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
: 
: 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.
: 
I just read this and had to say "BRAVO!" 

I couldn't have said it any better myself.

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