[PLUG] The virtue of posting while calm

Bill Spears bspears at easystreet.com
Thu Jan 22 08:33:02 UTC 2004


You're right. Mousilini is either a hair product or a very thin pasta.

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:58, Karol Kulaga wrote:
> *ahem* I believe that is Mussolini
> /history nazi who just needed to respond to something on
> this goddamn long thread.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Jeme A
> Brelin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:13 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] The virtue of posting while calm
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Cliff Wells wrote:
> > Then I suppose you disagree with the axiom "if a = b and b
> = c then a =
> > c".  At this point what you agree with or disagree with
> becomes moot
> > since your ability to reason becomes highly suspect.
> Sheesh.  And
> > people here wonder why I question their intelligence.  Two
> words for
> > you: remedial algebra.  Let me make it clear:
> >
> > Claim 1:  PDXLUG is run by Matt King (a = b)
> > Claim 2:  PDXLUG is run by fascists (b = c)
> > Therefore,  Matt King is a fascist. (a = c)
> 
> You're the only one to call anybody a fascist, just so's you
> know.
> Mousilini was fascist, certainly, but my comparison was to
> his
> totalitarianism, not his fascism.  (While it is basically
> true that all
> fascists are totalitarian, not all totalitarians are
> fascists.)  That's a
> bit like saying that, since I compared him to Mousilini, I'm
> implying that
> Matt is bald.
> 
> That aside, let's just substitute "totalitarian" for
> "fascist" in your
> above syllogism and we have a fairly accurate statement.
> 
> The question remains, is that an insult?  I don't think so.
> It's a
> description of his (apparently) prefered organization style.
> That's just
> the english word for that style of management.  It's not an
> insult.
> 
> J.
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