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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Be Quick who wrote (19295)	4/18/1998 4:24:00 AM
From: Flagrante Delictu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

John, Re: your opinion on how Henry & tonyt (& others) ought to conduct themselves on this thread. In my post to you numbered 19288, I told you I'd love to hear your answer to 2 questions. The first question was." Who has the right to tell him (Henry) to do it their way?" The other question was,." To whom does he owe how, what, when, where, or why to post?" I would still like to hear your specific answer to each of these posts. You, of course, may choose to continue avoiding these questions. That is your prerogative. Several things in your post were interesting to me. >> As to who owes what to whom, I find your insistence that no one has any obligation to anyone else except for services rendered in consideration of financial compensation a little strange, even in this setting. Ask your spiritual counselors about this. << Would you believe my spiritual counselors were put to death in California via a cocktail of applesauce & drugs while they were waiting for their spaceship to come & take them to a better place? Whether you would or not is immaterial. In the real world, we have found that financial compensation is the generally accepted medium of exchange for services. There are those who try to impose barter, praise, awards, & various other schemes. But most of them don't wash. Here, of course, I refer to both the schemes & the schemers. >> On the other hand, you'd think that feedback from one's intended audience would be both useful to & welcomed by the posters themselves. << No, I wouldn't think that. It's no substitute for cash & I'm surprised you think that way. >> You'd have to wonder why anyone would want to repeat the same thing in the same way ad nauseum to an unreceptive ,disbelieving or uncomprehending audience. << No, I wouldn't have to wonder, because I understand people. They are like that. But, I would have to wonder why you describe the audience here as "unreceptive, disbelieving or uncomprehending" and 6 lines later tell us that they are those "who have made what in )your) view are reasonably friendly requests & suggestions" to Henry & tonyt to do things the way this audience wants. I also, could not fail to notice your characterization of the posts & their frequency. Ad nauseum, as our threadsters know, means "to the point of nausea " in Latin. You are apparently one of the providers of the "reasonably friendly requests & suggestions"? And, I'm sure Henry & tonyt have not failed to notice how you compared their activities to those that would exacerbate the matrons & wardens of political correctness. The "stormtroopers" that you invented are a potent reminder to many of those whose relatives have been victimized by them. It is the usual call to rouse the victims to victimize others. I'd be surprised if it worked here. >> On the other hand,sometimes when someone tells you that you have bad breath, it's simply time to take a breath mint. Or is that too obvious? << Sometimes, it's a projection of their own concerns upon another. << I've actually grown quite fond of (the thread). << And so have I of you. We can hopefully disagree on this & others points & remain colleagues.