Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (111685)	9/28/2000 2:36:49 PM
From: ig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

That's because you live in your own little world, Crisco, where you are final arbiter of what is acceptable behavior and what is not, insensible to the long-standing and well-respected standards of online practice regarding the treatment of private correspondence, no matter from whom the private correspondence may have been received. But there is no need for me to point this out to the sane among us, and it is obviously lost upon the insane. I leave you with this gift from Baltazar Gracian: "Know how to play the card of contempt. It is a shrewd way of getting things you want, by pretending to depreciate them; generally they are not to be had when sought for, but fall into one's hands when one is not looking for them. As all mundane things are but shadows of the things eternal, they share with shadows this quality, they flee from him who follows them and follow him that flees from them. Contempt is also the most subtle form of revenge. It is a fixed rule with the wise never to defend themselves with the pen. For such defense always leaves a stain, and does more to glorify one's opponent than to punish his offence. It is a trick of the worthless to stand forth as opponents of great men, so as to win notoriety by a roundabout way, which they would never do by the straight road of merit. There are many we would not have heard of if their eminent opponents had not taken notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, through which they are buried in the dust of their unworthiness. An audacious person hopes to make himself eternally famous by setting fire to one of the wonders of the world and of the ages. The art of reproving scandal is not to take notice of it. To combat it damages our own case - even if credited it causes discredit and is a source of satisfaction to our opponent. This shadow of a stain dulls the luster of our fame, even if it cannot altogether deaden it." Adios, Crisco. ig