At 21:13 21-11-2002 -0500, you wrote:
Quite a statement, for someone who considers the rest of the world, especially Europe, to be inferior (military and otherwise) to the US.>>Which civilization are you a member of? Your civilization seems to be >>the Dutch civilization, and you have regularly framed your positions in >>terms of Dutch interest. > >I consider myself a member of the Terran civilisation.You have a strange way of showing your solidarity with Americans - leaving them to defend themselves against Al Qaeda.
John, who the fuck do you think you are, demanding that I retract a statement? You habitually launch personal attacks against other listmembers but have never apologised to for it; you habitually make the most stupid and ridiculous claims but refuse to either retract them or back them with proof; you habitually refuse to answer questions. So, you are obviously not in any position whatsoever to demand *anything* of *anyone*!>My exact words were: "Which is also irrelevant, because (1) I am not >responsible for your behaviour and (2) someone else's behaviour does not >make it OK for you to misbehave." So, I did not say that "my behaviour >is irrelevant to my criticisms of your behaviour". And as it is >impossible to retract a statement that I did not make... You earlier wrote that: "Given your history on this list, you are not exactly in a position to complain about someone else violating Netiquette." So, do you agree then, that the above statement by you is, quote, "irrelevant?" You responded to my criticism of your misbehaviou by pointing out my behaviour. Thus, either your "exact words" above are a misstatement by you that must be retracted, or else you agree that the above quote of yours is irrelevant.
Now, do the entire Internet community a favour and forever stay away from any computer that has Internet access.
>In other words, you believe that a person can make any claim s/he wants, no >matter how ridiculous, without having to provide proof for that claim. Correct.
Then you do not belong in a discussion forum. Go away.
Given your blatant refusals to back your claims, given your blatant refusals to answer questions, and given your statement that no claim whatsoever should ever have to be backed with proof, it is obvious that you do not *possess* that skill.My reputation as a member of the community, however, will no doubt be connected to the skill I use in backing up my arguments.
But there is indeed a connection between your reputation and your skills: both leave a hell of a lot to be desired.
But then, there is an awful lot that you do not know. The rules of social behaviour, for example.>>You, however, have no control over how I spend my List time. > >True, but given your attitude, I must now strongly recommend that you >reduce your list time to absolute zero. I didn't know that you could measure time in degrees Kelvin. :)
I hereby insist that you either start behaving like a civilised person or immediately cease sending messages to this list and to any of my off-list e-mail addresses.>>Permission to reply to this message on-list is not granted. > >I do not need your permission. Besides, you have not explicitly forbidden >me to reply to your message on-list (but do not bother: it will be ignored >anyway). I hereby insist that you do not repost anything I have written in this message to brin-l.
Jeroen "The only good Giorgis is a silent Giorgis" van Baardwijk
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