Re: Zimmermann\\\'s shameful display...
My god - you've hit on something here! Thank you, I forgot - everyone IS that way on the list. Just more so now. It's kind of like the guys in the inner city, they're always tough -insulting and challenging in in a way that's both threatening and jocular at the same time- on each other and you either have to harden to it and develop the skills for handling that particular kind of repartee and hold your own, or you are shunned from the social group. It's a way of bonding together and excluding outsiders. No, I'm not new to the list. And I'm not worried about it. But I definitely detect a heightened level of anxiety in the posts. On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:37:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone is acting like a bunch of assholes, snotty know-it-alls, So you're new to the list? -Declan
RE: Zimmermann\'s shameful display...
I am enjoying, in a macabre sense, watching the great Rorschach Test that events have turned out to be, where everyone's own impression of the world is reflected in their interpretations to a much greater degree than usual. Everyone is acting like a bunch of assholes, snotty know-it-alls, children, and infantile technoids. And most of us are ostensibly more on the same side than not. It gives one pause with regard to the behavior between people who DISagree about these and similar kinds of issues. Aimee - is this predicted in your worldview? Sandy Sandfort said: Spineless Anonymous or lain or whomever wrote: Grow a spine, Phil, you jellyfish. a) Anonymous fell for the oldest trick in book, he uncritically believed what he read in the newspaper. Missed my forwarded message from Phil, did you? There are two possibilities. Either Phil is a jellyfish or he's just a naive self-promoting snake. In either case the best possible scenario is that Phil is the one who fell for the oldest trick in the book. He assumed the reporter would simply cater to his overbloated And then there's Sandy. Sandy, I have watched you as a supposed advocate of freedom, libertarian ideals, privacy, anonyminity, consistently bad mouth about every anonymous poster on this list who has anything of importance to say. I've seen Declan and Tim doing this even more so, but there are deep issues regarding the clash behind the theory of Reputation Capital and the Cypherpunk mandate that anonymity is an essential component of privacy.
RE: Zimmermann\'s shameful display...
But isn't obligatory for all world class cpunks to have several nyms they post under, and to bad mouth and obsequy those fictions with exactly the same identifiable writing style, shifting one register to the left then to the right? I have here a list of names and perfectly intercoggal nyms. The evidence shows that some of these gearheads have been arguing and agreeing with themselves for years online and off. One though, a master of disguise, hides in front of a true name and never argues, never agrees, only pristines flawless prose. A clue: chews ghat, doesn't spit.
Re: Zimmermann\'s shameful display...
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 04:37:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone is acting like a bunch of assholes, snotty know-it-alls, So you're new to the list? -Declan
