From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: BERNOULLI BERNOULLI
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:25:54 GMT

In <2y0n81j@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:

>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) babbles:

>>I must a comprehension problem?  No, I think you must a comprehension
>>problem.  You free upgrade getting is probably reason for
>>comprehension problem you, stupid.

>I just *LOVE* to watch someone trying to talk while beside themselves
>with hate.  

Well, I'm glad to see you recognize my emulation of your writing
style, then. 

>>Oh, and if you claim to be a writer, you should rework your .sig.
>>Sure LOOKS like you're saying that people who are "interested in high
>>tech and computers" should "write me about PE Magazine".  Funny that
>>YOU seem to connect that "high tech and computers" with CARS, wouldn't
>>you say?

>It is a reading and comprehension problem.  Below is the relevant part of
>the sig.  Do you know what the word "mobility" in the context of 
>high performance means?  If not, you surely don't want to read my mag.

Well, since you don't say 'high performance' WHAT, it could be pretty
much anything, couldn't it?  The following line certainly IMPLIES you
are talking about 'high performance computers'.  It is a writing
problem.  In any case, I don't want to read anything you write,
PERIOD.

>|Interested in high performance mobility?  
>|
>|Interested in high tech and computers? 
>|Write me about PE Magazine

>>I wouldn't know.  I build stuff that kills people, and don't know
>>anything about the SC part of the business.  

>Being an ex-nuke, I used to build things to kill people too.  So?
>At least I took on an honest profession..

You call what you do honest?  That's really quite funny.  Must be true
what they say; all that radiation rots the brain.

>>My bias is against
>>asshole journalists who think they need to 'flex their muscles'
>>for/against companies for reasons that have nothing to do with
>>anything except their willingness or failure to do YOU special
>>favours. 

>Special favors?  Oh, you mean like my buying the drive in question long
>before any offer was made to fix the old one?  I wanted a drive that
>worked and when it appeared that a quick fix would not do it, I bought
>another one.  At retail from the supplier I've mentioned before in
>this thread.  Some favor, huh?  Oh, you mean they did me a favor taking
>my money... Oh, now I see.

>>I don't want to encourage you, so I make it a point not to buy or look
>>at any magazine you write for.  You're the type who gives JOURNALISTS
>>a bad name.

>A) I'm not a journalist (we've been over that one too but I understand your 
>problems.) and b) please DON'T under any circumstances read anything I write.  
>With your reading comprehension problem, no telling what you might think my 
>article say.

Yeah, I might actually figure out what you're saying.  Now THERE is a
frightening thought.  Of course, that assumes that there's some sense
in what you write, which I really seriously doubt.

>>Yeah, not to mention that they're rebuiding yours for free, huh?

>Actually they gave me a new one.  Must be total corruption, huh?

This is one time I'll take you at your word.

>>You're not related to Jerry Pounelle, are you?

>Nah, wish I were.  Maybe he'd give a relative some money.

>>No, my experience was with YOU.  I didn't say you were wrong about
>>Syquests being good; I said that your opinion is generally not to be
>>trusted because you tend to have a 'private agenda' when you
>>praise/slam something.

>Aw gee, fellow, you discovered my private agenda.  Since it is no longer
>a secret, I'll spell it out.  I *LIKE* to do business with companies
>that offer excellent customer service.  I *WANT* them to stay in business
>and prosper.  And assuming most people, like me, like to hear of good
>products, I heavily promote the good ones.  My promotion is the written
>expression of my opinion.  How's that for the "private agenda"?

That sounds fine.  Too bad that's not what you do.  What YOU do is
make these stupid snap-judgements based on what a company does in the
face of unreasonable demands and behaviour by you and a few friends.
In other words, your opinion can't be trusted because nobody can be
sure what outrageous thing you demanded that a company declined to do
that put you off of them.

>>Oddly, you're the one who usually seems to catch all the flak.  I
>>think you're just overly impressed with yourself.  It's really funny,
>>someone who writes about cars considers himslef a "technical person".
>>Taht's really quite a laugh.  And so are you, but only for a little
>>while.  Then your mouth merely becomes boring.

>Typing problem's really getting to ya, huh?  Let me get this straight.
>My background is nuclear engineering, circuit design and software.
>I made enough money at it that I can now do what I want which is to play
>with and write about cars.  Oh, it just dawned on me what your problem
>is.  You're *jealous*.  You're stuck at TI doing something you probably
>don't like and you're jealous of someone who IS doing what he likes.
>I should have seen it before.  BTW, when's the last time you peepeed in
>TI's little drug test bottle?

Jealous of YOU?  You *ARE* stupid, aren't you?  If I didn't like what
I'm doing, I wouldn't be doing it.  You obviously can't be happy with
your life, which explains why you spend so much time here playing the
fool. 

>You think anyone involved with automotive engineering is not a
>"technical person"?  YOU really need to get out more.  Take a
>look under the hood of your car or even better, if you can ever
>figure a way to travel in the circles I do, peep under the cowl
>of an Indy or F1 car.  Or even a NASCARmobile.  Observe the
>electronics.  Observe the composites.  Observe the sophisticated
>metallurgy.  See if you can guess where the technology is. 

If it was up your ass you'd know.  Seriously, I'm left rolling on the
floor with being so impressed about all your great accomplishments and
the "circles you travel in".  Yeah, right.

>Back to the issue at hand, let's summarize your position.  

Why is it I get the feeling that we're going to be left with things
that are TOTALLY false here?  Much like your 'analyses', no doubt.

>You don't work in
>the computer field, 

Strike one.  Lord knows where you got THAT one from.

>you've never used a Syquest drive 

That one's right, but then I said that, didn't I?

>and you've 
>presumably never used a Bernoulli drive 

Strike two.  Not sure how you arrived at that presumption, since I
explicitly said otherwise.  Not only can't you write, you apparently
can't read, either.

>and yet you offer a strong and
>offensive opinion on the topic.  

Well, no.  I didn't do that, either.  Strike three.  MY opinion was on
YOU and on your credibility, not on the technical merits of the
drives or the companies involved (and I've been quite happy with my
Bernoulli, by the way, and with the support from Iomega -- my only
gripe with them is paying for drivers for any OS but DOS).

>Your opinion is based
>exclusively being on the other side from me because you don't like
>me.  

My opinion is based on you because my opinion is ABOUT you.

>Finally, you continue to mistake me for a journalist.
>(I'm typing real slowly now, "P-u-b-l-i-s-h-e-r", got that?)  

You claim to write, John.  That is spelled j-o-u-r-n-a-l-i-s-t.

>And 
>you claim that journalists are liars?  

No, I claim that journalists of your stripe are, as we've seen above
in your 'summary'.

>Pot calling the kettle black
>My previous assessment of you stands with the modification that you 
>obviously have a lying streak a mile wide.  Probably with a tinge of 
>yellow.  A real work of art, you are.

Where are you making all THIS up from?  Not that it matters, of
course.  Reality obviously doesn't mean a lot to you.  You're just
another loudmouthed net-nit.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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