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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (304)	8/16/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 662

Ron: I did not use those symbols to indicate joking or jest as they would obviously give the joke/s away! The fun of the practical joke is seeing what effects they have on the targeted person! And, you make the perfect subject due to your chronic seriousness, and focus on imagined slights and wrongnesses in others' communications to and about you. E.g., my favorite program was "The Sunshine Boys"...and Candid Camera....the fun from those was creating the unexpected, and watching for the results! I care not if the viewing masses find humor in my posts! My amusement comes from my own creativity-if i find them laughable, regardless if the senario is witty, clever, or just absurd! I laughed my ass off at the 'Ron at Grand Lake' one and the 'Ron Response' one! That was my satisfaction, alone! My equivalent of the artist who paints and appreciates his own creation, with disregard for the negative or positive responses from those he allows to view his creation. Your reaction simply heightened my pleasure, seeing you, yet again, snagged by your non-perception of the carefully-crafted 'trap' I set for you, knowing in advance that you would automatically put the most negative self-spin on them, without taking the time to apply perception and reasoning to see any hidden game-plan, much less disguised humor or practical joking lurking below the obvious surface! Think of the typical Candid Camera senario of the target looking down and finding a plastic worm in his soup! Apologize for what? You now gotta be joking! Finally an attempt at humor from you! Rather than that, I will simply thank you for the laughs you inadvertantly provided me. For what.... Because you were and always are too serious to see the joke? Because you always look for deeper, darker messages and miss the obvious (however subtle)? Because you are so sensitive to a perceived slight? You are the one owing an apology- as I just explained, my intent was to create humor, yours to the contrary, often contained negative and quite hostile intent, to the point of attempting to get me cancelled. I shall not ask for your apology, as I know you find it so very, very difficult, more likely an impossibility at this late stage, to admit and acknowledge when you were and are wrong, and act or acted inappropriately. Instead, I will just suggest to lighten up, and work on developing/exhibiting here some humor! You don't have very long left before finding any humor in anything will be virtually impossible, and the environment for levity will be gone for a long, long time.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (304)	8/16/1999 5:55:00 PM
From: Jim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 662

There are people I really despise. They lack morals, character, and honesty. They throw us into a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation. In case you can't tell, I'm talking about Ken here. Let me cut to the chase: I lost all respect for Ken when he refused to provide me with any evidence regarding his reckless statement regarding pacemakers. The name of the hospital without revealing his "source" would not have violated any confidence. He could have PM'd me the hospital name, but of course he was lying about the risk.. Many of his personal attacks are seriously flawed, frequently fail to meet minimal standards of logic, and, on balance, are slaphappy. One of the enduring effects of his inclinations is surely the way they will demand special treatment that, in many cases, borders on the ridiculous. While some of his rantings are very attractive on the surface and are indeed entertaining, they ultimately serve to invade every private corner and force every thought into an irritating mold. He is determined to put as little thought as possible into solving the undeniable problems that our society is still facing with regard to oligarchism. His allegations oscillate between intellectually-stultified stoicism and unpleasant teetotalism. And, more important, Ken has a penchant for counterinsurgency and clandestine operations. I thought that it was time someone write a post about how Ken's values are built on a backlash fueled by anger -- in the form of resentment, spite, vengeance, envy, loss, and bitterness over declining status -- on the part of illogical worthless-types. This is that post. To start, Ken is as quasi-churlish as the sky is blue. Crapulous effrontive twits have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. When I first heard about his half-measures, I didn't know whether to laugh, because his viewpoints are so crotchety, or cry, to realise that there are people out there with these views. It may seem obvious, but statistical details released by a third-party agency indicate that people like Ken remain a small isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame obscene enemies of the people for the potential problem to society ie. Y2k. While there are probably a lot of people out there who would be quite content never to read another letter about Ken, Ken knows perfectly well that his cult followers, when they are taken seriously at all, are considered by most scholars to be of questionable credibility. And that's why I feel compelled to say something about repugnant smarmy-types. You seem to be his target Ron. His protests are not an isolated case of splenetic belligerent antipluralism, but a typical example of how garrulous he can be. Equally important is the fact that his assertions serve no purpose other than to encourage a deadly acceptance of intolerance. Ken, YOU are the joke. With thanks to Scott Pakin's complaint generator. www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu P.S. Just kidding - my sense of humor Ken.