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[David Maynard]

Gary H wrote:

David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

Those of us who were there are not deceived by revisionist
histories.
In those days, it was big bad IBM versus tiny helpless
Microsoft, not
the other way around. Microsoft didn't (and couldn't) twist
IBM's
arm.


Ya know, all this really isn't about Bill Gates or Microsoft
Per Se. It's about the greed factor and the power factor and
the control factor. The desire for absolute power and to
corrupt absolutely . The sort of thing that rears its ugly
head virtually every single day of our lives. Like Enron,
Hollinger international and on and on.

With Microsoft, like many others it *is* about greed and power.

With the oil industry, it *is* about greed and power.
For example, I live in the north-eastern part of this north
American continent. In the summertime, the price of gas goes
sky-high because of the demand and heating oil drops and in
the wintertime the price of heating fuel goes sky-high because
of demand and gas drops. The immediate response or belief
drilled into the general public is that there is a shortage of
oil. There is NOT.
There is plenty of oil. I know, because where I live, we are
net exporters of oil.

Super. But unless you can demonstrate your area's exports are
enough to power the planet that little factiod means nothing
about the state of the world's oil supply.

Overly simplistic bullshit.

Your claim wasn't just overly simplistic it was fundamentally
flawed logic.

It's all of the sources worldwide that supplies the planet

Which is why your logic had no sense to it.

and there is plenty at the moment.

You've not provided any evidence of it.

It will eventually run out, so I guess the oil guys figure
they'll get their money now, while the gettin' is good..

But sane, rational, 'good guy' you would wait till there isn't any?

You don't notice a teensy flaw in your business plan?

The problem is that with the increased demand, nobody is
building extra refining capacity. Especially those who
*control* the industry. You know, the Exxons, Shell, and so on.

They haven't built new refineries in a coon's age because they
can't get permits as environmentalists have essentially blocked
every technologically feasible source of new energy production.

Again, overly simplistic bullshit.

Just the facts, mam.

It's gotten to the point where these bastards are driving the
crap out of a barrel of oil because (get this) they're
expecting a friggin' snow storm in the north-east of the
continent.

Wouldn't be so bad if you folks up there would ever let them
build a bloody pipeline too but, nooooooo. So when it's socked
in every other means of transport is cut off and you're stuck
with whatever local supplies have been pre stocked.

Again, over simplistic. It's not that building a pipeline is not
permitted, it that it's not permitted to build it the *way* you
guys want to do it.

Metal tube in the ground. You got some other kind?


Stupid a**hole. The pipeline would be over a coupla thousand miles
of Tundra. Do you know what that is?

Sure, I know what it is. I do not, however, know where the hell
you're located so get off you self indulgent high horse.

I doubt it. Why let factual information get in the way. You
cannot bury pipe in perma-frost. Also, when run on the surface,
migration paths for caribou and other migratory species *must* be
considered. The route chosen by our government, which would have
addressed all those concerns was too costly and too much trouble
for administrators of the US oil industry so, they wouldn't build
it. So, screw ya, do without it.

Typical whiner. Can't do this. Can't do that. Then blame it on
someone else.

Good gawd a'mighty, what the hell are you on about. There's no blame
being placed on anyone.

Why is it that some people think that denying what they do in the very
next sentence is a 'logical' argument?


I really think you need to not only learn to read, but learn to
understand what you read. What is written below is a *statement* not a
*blame*. You're definitely mistaking me for someone who gives a shit as
to whether or not the oil gets south of the border.

Your assessment of virtually everything is a 'blame' of one sort or the
other. In this particular case, it's a blame you apparently consider
thankfully 'averted': the dirty rotten cheap bastard oil companies from
"f**king up some other country's environment."

It's strictly the US government and US oil interests who are whining,
because they can't get their own way in implementing a pipeline from
Alaska (that's US territory) through Canada (that's our territory).
They want to do it cheap and dirty and consequently, go about f**king
up some other country's environment like they've done with their
own. Canada says no, meet these criteria or forget it. Don't you
think the US would do the same if things were reversed??

I've already seen how it can bes done cooperatively and with extensive
environmental 'considerations', as you call it, with the existing
Alyeska pipeline so your claims do not jibe with reality.

If your government is going to decide everything then why don't you
folks build it your own blessed selves?

Of course we decide everything in this case, It's still our country.
I suppose it is? I haven't looked at Dubbya's latest moves yet
today. You *do* understand that Canada is not part of the US I assume?

When attempting to work with someone else it's never 'all' one or the
other and that you seem to think so is likely one of the problems.

Man, you can't play ball with Goliath when he's continually shoving the
bat up your ass.

I supposed this isn't a 'blame' either.

We don't need to build it. We don't want to build it. We have no
reason to build it. We have enough oil, we don't need any more.
Besides, it's US oil, not Canadian oil. Already told you that a
number of times as well. It's US oil coming from a US State and
Canada *happens* to be in the way.

Thanks for being a good neighbor.

Good neighbor? If "good neighbor" is defined by giving up your right to
implement your own rules in your own country in what you perceive as
being the best and least destructive, Then I say f**k it, be a lousy
neighbor. Don't see much "good neighbor" coming north from your neck of
the woods, except when it serves "American interests". Takes 2 to tango
mister.

IMO a "good neighbor" is defined, in part at least, as being reasonable,
rational and, ideally, cordial and helpful but I'm not getting that
impression from you.

We *do* have environmental protection rules up this way, and
where we have them, we apply them.

Good for you. So stop whining about the costs they impose.

Ha, how many times do you have to be told that is not where the costs
come from. The costs are fixed by the New York Stock Exchange and
Futures Buyers. Jeeze, you *can't possibly* be that dumb and unaware
of the world around you. Haven't you noticed statements like "The
price of oil for delivery in February will be ....", for example or,
the price of oil was up on the NYSE today due to "profit taking"
(like that excuses it). How in the hell does anyone *know* what the
situation is gonna be in February? Nobody knows what it will be like
next friggin' week for chrissake.

Supply and demand.


Supply and shit, we're talking months into the future. Supply *and*
demand is what happens in the present.

Simply not so. Companies of all kinds, not just 'oil', have to deal with
future supplies for the simple fact they hope to be in business past 'the
present' and not everything just spontaneously appears on your dock the
instant you may need it, at least not without planning into the future. So
if see you won't be able to get what you need *then* it affects what you do
*now*.

Btw, in your futures trading examples, the price generally goes *down* on
"profit taking," not up, (increased supply as the profit takers try to
sell) and that "nobody knows... what the situation is gonna be in February"
is why it's a risk. Futures traders are gambling on the price, they don't
'fix' it, so if that "for delivery in February" price they paid turns out
to be high they lose.

Not whining about that part. Whining because the goddam crowd of
thieves on Wall St are the cause of these increases.

Yeah, it's all a 'plot' just to get you.

Not a plot, just plain GREED, as I've said a number of times
already. Why do you always have to try and read in something that is
not there? Really don't feel too secure in your argument or what??

"Greed" is a motive and if it were not acted on you wouldn't be so
incensed. But you are so you obviously feel it's being acted on and that is
'the plot'. Or, in your case, I suspect it's many plots as you seem to use
it as a universal explanation for every perceived ill.

Just that I understand supply and demand in a world market.

WooHoo. From this thread and others I get the impression you think you
understand a lot about everything. I would argue the point. But???

I provide the logic behind my 'understanding' so it can be evaluated.

And you wonder why you sound like a conspiracy buff or paranoid.

I say GREED. Do you need a definition? What could that possibly have
to do with "conspiracy and paranoia". Man, you make absolutely no sense
sometimes. I notice it normally occurs "argument legs" get really
wobbly.

Explained just above. "Greed" is simply a motive behind the 'conspiracy'
and without the act the motive is moot so you'd have nothing to rail about.

Keeerist, you're sure hung up on the psychological babble talk. Find
another angle, this one is wearing thin.

Well, yes, your insistence on using it is getting rather old.


Really dumb statement. I guess enough is enough. Later

I was referring to your insistence that every perceived ill is due to "greed."

 

[Gary H]

David Maynard wrote:

<SNIP>

This is obviously going nowhere. You have your opinion, I have
mine. Hmmm, strange huh? Just like two nations.

As with them, discussions are sometimes useless.

 

[JAD]

"Gary H" <g.h@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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David Maynard wrote:

SNIP

This is obviously going nowhere. You have your opinion, I have mine.
Hmmm, strange huh? Just like two nations.

As with them, discussions are sometimes useless.

I find communication breaks down when the same old rhetoric gets spewed over
and over, whether its fact or just something they heard once from 'someone'
at the dinner table, who could have invested in MS in the 80's, but didn't
because it was a lark and would never become anything worth while.

 

[Gary H]

JAD wrote:

"Gary H" <g.h@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:w1iof.3803$PQ3.658768@news20.bellglobal.com...

David Maynard wrote:

SNIP

This is obviously going nowhere. You have your opinion, I have mine.
Hmmm, strange huh? Just like two nations.

As with them, discussions are sometimes useless.


I find communication breaks down when the same old rhetoric gets spewed over
and over, whether its fact or just something they heard once from 'someone'
at the dinner table, who could have invested in MS in the 80's, but didn't
because it was a lark and would never become anything worth while.

You sure got that right. By both parties. My apologies, I
should have left it alone many many lines back.
Too stupid I suppose.

 

[Rich Grise, but drunk]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:44:10 -0800, JAD wrote:

your begging the old fashioned way and you have internet access? Get with it
man, I'm a Technobum. I don't need to deal with the elements. I sit in blogs
and virtual street corners, I make twice that.

Really? Please do tell me more!

I suppose you could email me - I have a spamdump at richardgrise@yahoo.com,
but if you elide ard, I'll get it eventually. ;-)

But netiquette asks that you post so that others can benefit from your
answers; so if you want to email me, just cc your post.

Remember to elide ard. ;-)

Quant Suff!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise, but drunk]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:54:03 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:
Michael A. Terrell writes:

I never begged. I found odd jobs and paid for my own food. I may have
slept in my truck and taken showers at a relatives house, but I was
never a bum.

Beggars and bums are not synonymous. There are situations and times
in which some people may be temporarily reduced to begging without
this necessarily reflecting upon their habitual industry. It is true
that someone who chooses voluntarily to make a career of begging over
the long term may be somewhat of a bum, particularly in developed
countries where so many other options exist.

The only people I have seen begging fit Rich's description of
alcoholics wanting booze. I've seen them with "Will work for food signs"
and they got pissed when someone stopped and gave them food instead of
money.

I don't. I thank them gushingly. Let's face the facts, I've been a bum
since long before I became a professional beggar. And like I said, it
takes a lot of pride to go hungry in a country where they throw away
hundred of pounds of food every day because the "sell by" code was
yesterday.

Hell, in college, the guys in the dorm would walk across the street
to the burger joint at closing time, when they were about to toss
the unsold burgers and fries into the dumpster. They just tossed them
to us instead.

The other things I learned in college are, Tang mixes perfectly well
with straight vodka, but it's terribly strong; and how to burn farts.

Around here that will get you arrested. The homeless live in the
Ocala national forest and are treated like trash. A lot of them are
veterans we are trying to help find jobs and get back on their feet but
most want nothing to do with anyone outside of their camouflaged camps.

Yours must be a very cruel society.

He's talking about Florida, the state that got Dubya elected. Of course
they're harsh!

Gee, its easy for you to judge others. Its a warm climate and these
people hive migrated here from all over the country. Some have mental
problems, others are thieves. They make no attempt to fit in with people
outside their small groups, and most encounters are when they are
stealing something. How do you expect people to think of them? They
have been offered help, food and clothing along with a place to shower
for free. Their reaction was to start more trouble. Some have been
arrested a number of times.

I notice a lot of "Them" here, speaking of "judg[ing] others". Maybe
"they" prefer not to receive largesse from a self-righteous boor who
issues his charity with a generous dollop of guilt-trip.

What was that crack about your walking-stick? You're such a victim
because they cut you off in the crosswalk? Is that the old rich white
people who do that?

Just whack them with your stick!

And lately, I haven't been begging, I've been selling jokes. This one's
pretty popular:

Q: How many white guys does it take to change out a light bulb?

A: One.

;-P

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:03:28 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

JAD wrote:

OH ok judge jury and executioner mike a terrel......... live with them, THEN
talk about what you have learned. How they got there, who put them there,
and why can't the richest nation in the world take some interest in
them.........until then STFU.............


So, enlighten us! How do you help people who refuse to be helped?
Can you do that with only one hand on the keyboard?

We get off our fat, self-righteous, judgemental ass, and give what we can
spare, when we can spare it.

You astonish me sometimes, the way you rag on Jim Thompson, while, in
these tirades, you're practically indistinguishable from him.

Self-righteous is as self-righteous does.

And that "one hand on the keyboard" crack is kind of pitiable, when you
think it through.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:29:33 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

Michael A. Terrell writes:

So, enlighten us! How do you help people who refuse to be helped?
Can you do that with only one hand on the keyboard?

You're assimilating beggars with people who refuse to be helped. They
are not one and the same.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.


I can only speak about those that I have met. I'm sure that there are
others, but I have never met any of them.

Maybe you should try. You might learn a little bit about what "self-
sufficiency" really means: Here's a clue: It's not "waiting for my
benefits check".

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:00:24 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

Michael A. Terrell writes:

Gee, its easy for you to judge others.

Not easy enough that I can arrest them for begging without feeling a
pang of conscience.

Hey, it's just as illegal for rich people to sleep under bridges as it
is for poor people.

:-/
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:19:58 -0330, Gary H wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got
rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it
MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in
government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way
and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the
street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the
slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

Nah, it's just the ruling-class/peasant dichotomy, which Americans seem
to be really enamored of trying to convince themselves doesn't exist.

Wonder what Uncle Billy's paying for a blow job these days? ;-P

Thanks!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:02:48 -0600, David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of
you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be
tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does.

None of your business what he gives nor does it matter what you think he
'should'.

S.O.B. got rich by
stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it MS-DOS.

And CPM was 'stolen' from Digital Equipment Corp RT-11 right down to pip
but if you think MS-DOS looks like CPM then you never used CPM.

On the other hand one wonders how he ran the 'stolen' 8 bit 8080 CMP code
on 16 bit processors.

He didn't have to. IBM and Intel were kind enough to provide him with the
ever-popular 8088, which once they got the assembler written, could cross-
compile 8080 code and execute it. I once had an opportunity to play with
a very expensive S-100 computer that had both and 8085 and an 8088, and
could run the native code of each, but not simultaneously. I had some
great fun writing interprocess communications stuff in assembly code,
and trying to invent file locking on a "MP/M-8/16" OS. It was based on
CP/M, but was "multi-user", in that it supported several ASCII serial
terminals, but not "multi-user" in any real sense.

Anyway, at the time Intel came out with the 8088, everyone with half a
brain or more wondered, "If they're segmenting memory to get an effective
20-bit address, with two overlapping 16-bit address registers, why didn't
they just multiplex it to 32 x 16 right on the spot, and not worry about
"segmentation," but start right out with flat memory? There's really
no excuse for making a processor as crippled as an 8088, other than that
everybody already had an 8080, and all of the peripherals were 8 bits,
and the bus was 8 bits at the time; but why not just for the time being,
ignore the unused 8 bits on the 16-bit bus, go ahead and have 16-bit wide
memory on-board, and so on?

But nOOOOOooo! They graced us with the 8088 and all that has followed.

Oh, well - hindsight is always 20-20, and I think I have a ... Nah, lemme
check: Heh. AMD Athlon, but I have no idea if it's 16 or 32 bits - call it
a brain fart. Blame it on rant endorphins, thanks.
</rant>

Cheers!
Rich

 

[John Doe]

Rich Grise <eatmyshorts doubleclick.net> wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:19:58 -0330, Gary H wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most
of you will earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will
consider that to be tax evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow......
lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got
rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it
MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in
government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way
and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the
street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the
slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

Nah, it's just the ruling-class/peasant dichotomy, which Americans
seem to be really enamored of trying to convince themselves
doesn't exist.

It's easy enough to measure and often enough complained about here
in the United States.

Could be better if our big corporations would stop exporting jobs to
countries which are much more ruling-class/peasant based.

Wonder what Uncle Billy's paying for a blow job these days? ;-P

You can get more attention with that troll in a politics group.

Thanks!
Rich




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[Rich Grise]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:41:30 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

Gary H writes:

Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me?

I don't recall mentioning you. Hmm.

I know Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question
about it. I didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief
with accomplices before and after the fact. Why do you have to
make it complicated?

Do you find "dime-store" psychology to be complicated?

Bill Gates is no more a thief than any other corporate CEO. He
happens to be the founder of a very successful company, and the
founders of successful companies are routinely demonized, typically
without any rational basis for doing so.

I've heard him called a "brilliant opportunist", which, AFAIU,
means, "being in the right place at the right time and being
conscious/sober enough at the time to spot the goose that's laying
the golden egg".

I want to sell bumper stickers that say, "If you're so rich, howcome
you're not smart?" ;-)

Thanks!
Rich

 

[Pig Bladder]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:52:27 -0600, David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:

Many people refuse to believe that anyone could become more successful
than themselves through purely legitimate means because it implies
that these such a person might be smarter than they are, and they
cannot accept this possibility.


Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me? I know
Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question about it. I
didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief with accomplices
before and after the fact. Why do you have to make it complicated?


Because you demonstrate the trait even in the denial of it.

Which trait is that? Being a thief? Please show us an example of this
alleged "demonstration".

You certainly are showing a lot of the symptoms of this "denial" you so
glibly bandy about, however.
--
Flap!
The Pig Bladder from Uranus, still waiting for that
hot babe to ask what my favorite planet is. ;-j

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:35:38 -0330, Gary H wrote:

... Lawd hep us!!

He wants to, but it seems very, very few people are willing to relax
their brain-lock enough to accept it in the form it's currently being
offered.
--
Good Luck!
Rich

for further information, please visit http://www.godchannel.com

 

[Rich Grise, but drunk]

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:43:34 -0600, clifto wrote:

DBLEXPOSURE wrote:
Have you ever noticed how MS bashers can usually remember every DOS command
and claim to still prefer it over a GUI, How ironic is that? Perhaps they
are just pissed because MS came up with a GUI that allows normal people to
use a computer?

I hate mice. I hate graphics tablets worse, and I hate trackballs only
marginally less than I hate mice, but I hate mice with a passion.

I am to pointing devices what Yosemite Sam is to rabbits.

What? You try to cheat them at poker?

Could you be thinking of Elmer Fudd?

Thnaks!
Rich

 

[David Maynard]

Rich Grise wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:02:48 -0600, David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of
you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be
tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does.

None of your business what he gives nor does it matter what you think he
'should'.


S.O.B. got rich by
stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it MS-DOS.

And CPM was 'stolen' from Digital Equipment Corp RT-11 right down to pip
but if you think MS-DOS looks like CPM then you never used CPM.

On the other hand one wonders how he ran the 'stolen' 8 bit 8080 CMP code
on 16 bit processors.


He didn't have to. IBM and Intel were kind enough to provide him with the
ever-popular 8088, which once they got the assembler written, could cross-
compile 8080 code and execute it.

It's really a moot point as Microsoft bought QDOS to make PC-DOS for IBM.

I once had an opportunity to play with
a very expensive S-100 computer that had both and 8085 and an 8088, and
could run the native code of each, but not simultaneously. I had some
great fun writing interprocess communications stuff in assembly code,
and trying to invent file locking on a "MP/M-8/16" OS. It was based on
CP/M, but was "multi-user", in that it supported several ASCII serial
terminals, but not "multi-user" in any real sense.

Anyway, at the time Intel came out with the 8088, everyone with half a
brain or more wondered, "If they're segmenting memory to get an effective
20-bit address, with two overlapping 16-bit address registers, why didn't
they just multiplex it to 32 x 16 right on the spot, and not worry about
"segmentation," but start right out with flat memory? There's really
no excuse for making a processor as crippled as an 8088, other than that
everybody already had an 8080, and all of the peripherals were 8 bits,
and the bus was 8 bits at the time; but why not just for the time being,
ignore the unused 8 bits on the 16-bit bus, go ahead and have 16-bit wide
memory on-board, and so on?

But nOOOOOooo! They graced us with the 8088 and all that has followed.

Oh, well - hindsight is always 20-20, and I think I have a ... Nah, lemme
check: Heh. AMD Athlon, but I have no idea if it's 16 or 32 bits - call it
a brain fart. Blame it on rant endorphins, thanks.
/rant

Cheers!
Rich

 

[David Maynard]

Rich Grise wrote:

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:41:30 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:


Gary H writes:


Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me?

I don't recall mentioning you. Hmm.


I know Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question
about it. I didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief
with accomplices before and after the fact. Why do you have to
make it complicated?

Do you find "dime-store" psychology to be complicated?

Bill Gates is no more a thief than any other corporate CEO. He
happens to be the founder of a very successful company, and the
founders of successful companies are routinely demonized, typically
without any rational basis for doing so.


I've heard him called a "brilliant opportunist", which, AFAIU,
means, "being in the right place at the right time and being
conscious/sober enough at the time to spot the goose that's laying
the golden egg".

There's certainly something to be said for having the snap to recognize a
golden opportunity. Remember, IBM wanted to use CPM and went to Digital
Research FIRST.

I want to sell bumper stickers that say, "If you're so rich, howcome
you're not smart?" ;-)

Reminds me of an old commercial with a rich fellow in his limo clipping
coupons and a startled bystander exclaims "as rich as you are you clip
coupons?" and the rich dude replies "how do you think I got to be so rich?"

Thanks!
Rich

 

[David Maynard]

Pig Bladder wrote:

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:52:27 -0600, David Maynard wrote:


Gary H wrote:


Mxsmanic wrote:


Many people refuse to believe that anyone could become more successful
than themselves through purely legitimate means because it implies
that these such a person might be smarter than they are, and they
cannot accept this possibility.


Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me? I know
Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question about it. I
didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief with accomplices
before and after the fact. Why do you have to make it complicated?


Because you demonstrate the trait even in the denial of it.


Which trait is that? Being a thief? Please show us an example of this
alleged "demonstration".

I never said a thing about anyone being a thief so your request is nonsensical.

You certainly are showing a lot of the symptoms of this "denial" you so
glibly bandy about, however.

Name one.

 

[David Maynard]

Gary H wrote:

David Maynard wrote:

SNIP

This is obviously going nowhere. You have your opinion, I have mine.
Hmmm, strange huh? Just like two nations.

As with them, discussions are sometimes useless.

It is true that discussions usually go no where when one, or both, simply
throw 'opinions' around. That's why I provide the logic and reasoning, so
it isn't 'just an opinion'.

That, of course, doesn't work either if one clings to 'opinions' regardless
of logic or reasoning.