On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:37:42 -0400, Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 07:52:00AM -0500, Gary Denton wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:05:54 -0400, Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert X. Cringely is pretty well-known. > > As a pseudonym, sure. How many people do you think have written under > it? > > > "Well, for one thing, I knew Fred Nold and hate to think that his work > > would die with him. But much more importantly, we should care because > > I'm told the Block and Nold study, which was intended to economically > > validate the proposed sentencing guidelines, instead showed that the > > new guidelines would actually create more crime than they would deter. > > More crime, more drug use, more robbery, more murder would be the > > result, not less. Not only that, but these guidelines would lead to > > entire segments of the population entering a downward economic spiral, > > taking away their American dream." > > > > Gary Denton > > It is really pathetic that you consider that a worthwhile "thrust" of > the article. "I'm told..." that there is a great solution to a difficult > problem that the Man has ignored? You, Gary, are the kind of person most > responsible for people like Bush and his cronies coming to power.
Cringely is well-known, I posted the link. Julia posted an interesting article by him, although lacking in details, about a man he knew who committed suicide. This Fred Nold had been hired to do a study analyzing sentencing guidelines. This study wasn't used and Cringely regrets this. You conplain the article was whining and paranoid and not productive. You then complain my interpretation of the thrust of the article is "pathetic" and that I'm "the kind of person most responsible for people like Bush and his cronies coming to power." I find your comments insulting as well as, in your words, whining, pathetic, and not productive. So I am diverting your future comments to a folder to examine in a few weeks to see if you are still this way. Cheers, Gary Denton -- One way of being productive Maru -- #2 on google for liberal news "I don't try harder" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
