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To: grimes who wrote (182525)	1/7/2006 12:12:04 PM
From: mcmab	Read Replies (3) of 275872

My dearest grimes: You open so many issues with a short and seemingly balanced paragraph. Let us refer to this view you espouse as "Grimesean" but use the standard english contraction to grimsean so that it rhymes with crimson. This is in no way to compete with the DRBESian mangling patois for example "uppa dolla". I do think Charles Dickens would like and use grimsean while he would relegate DRBESian to reported speech. It may be argued that one unifying thread through literature is the ability to recognize evil before us. As a species we are not very good at it, perhaps because our strength is our ability to cooperate. The classic examples leap to mind - "all aboard the train you're going to a holiday camp" and "just leave your clothes here its time for a group shower, loofa anyone?" and that most vain hope expressed by a British prime minister "Peace in our time" while Churchill was huffing "This House would make a pact with the devil". In the 19th century and earlier we have the appearance of the individual evildoer - even earlier in the so-called miracle plays, the bad guy had a special costume so the audience could boo him. The aforementioned Dickens explores individual evil in his books - which were exceedingly popular at the time - and who can forget Pip's first meeting with the criminal. In the face of some rather large mass killings in the 20th century a new paradigm was needed and we find literature seeking to interpret these sides of the human condition. Enter what we might call Borg society, beautifully visualized in Metropolis and the 1984 Superbowl ads. The concept the good individuals are coopted into an evil enterprise by the one bad person. This logically extends the 19th century view. There is the implicit idea that you can accept one of the bad stormtroopers, have him home for tea and he would see the error of his ways. Well quaint as this may be it needs developing further. Under this world view there could be no trials at Nuremberg. Enter the most popular author of the late 20th century. One I believe vastly underrated because of her medium. Her ability to explore issues within a complex framwork is startling; she spins the most seductive stories and is blessed with a dazzling talent to write wonderful prose. JK Rowling. If she doesn't win a Nobel prize for literature then it is the prize's loss. Rowling extends the Borg into a new realm. She may not be the first but she is the most widely read. Now we have a central embodiment of evil with his surrounding entourage who are not good guys. She calls them Death Eaters and when they get together they raise their logo into the sky. Much of the plot of Rowling's books is unmasking the Death Eaters in the midst of everyday society. These are not misguided nice guys, they deserve - and get - the grisly end coming to them. I wonder how much of the re-evaluation of the bad guy is due to the discovery and elucidation of cooperative slime molds. Thus to our differing world views. My question is: Is KeithDust2000 part of a slime mold? I say he emphatically is. Is this a grimsean situation or are intel the bad guys. Remember that the reason you are on the Moderated AMD thread is that the original thread was overrun and polluted by intel pr. KeithDust2000 is a moderator over at ihub. Go look and see what the context's are. While there look down the post #'s and see how many have been deleted. He's running a little soviet over there where the anti-AMD sentiments can be carefully nurtured. Then he comes here and falsifies the conclusion of a review. I say no, put him to a grisly end - unless you want a Moderated Moderated thread. Is intel evil? Should their logo say "Evil inside". Well evil is tough to prove. I think AMD says they are evil in the legal complaint. Certainly intel has hurt me. Last year at this time they collaped the flash market just to hurt AMD. In doing so they caught me as a shareholder. Unfortuately the best I can do is unmask him else the moderator here will ban me. No wait - I can curse him in Euskara, now thought to be the remaining prehistoric european language. The worst I can do is: asto zahar KeithDust2000 hau There is a certain pleasure in thinking that perhaps a similar curse was launched by a Cro-Magnon at a passing neanderthal. Have fun!

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