At 02:55 PM 1/12/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
>Dan Steinberg just sent a message regaling us with tales of his many
>conversations with NTIA people. I wonder where the public
>transcripts of those are?
He said:
">Private phone calls with anyone who asked was one of Ira Magaziner's
>hallmarks. He talked to me (and many other people) as individuals
>long before we banded together in various organizations."
Private individuals don't usually keep transcripts of private phone
calls. Note the last 8 words in the above quote.
>> These past few weeks have seen a number of disengenious messages from Kent
>> Crispin. Mostly questions to which he definitely new the correct answer,
>> but worded in a way so as to cast a negative view, completely at odds with
>> the answer he already knew about.
>
>You are very perceptive. Let me describe how that goes. I read
>reams of stuff on the list, and finally so fed up with a particular
>dishonest/inaccurate/clueless/whatever point of view that I have to
>respond. Just arguing is pointless, so I respond by duplicating the
>behavior in an ironic way. That's what you call "disingenuous".
No, mybe not. A little bizarre maybe. Nobody seems to get the irony
Kent, so either wer'e all stuid and you're a latent comic genius
or maybe it just wsn't that funny or ironic outside of your own
mindset.
Maybe I just don't understand....
<shakes head>
--
"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more
humane and fair than the world your governments have made before." - Barlow.
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