[PLUG] The virtue of posting while calm

[Brian Beattie]

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 04:31, John Cadigan wrote:

You come in 4 days after it is all over, use HTML so I have to top post.
All you do is add more noise.
> 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.
> 
> Please watch your mouth! Thank you! 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 08:33:36
> To: PLUG
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] The virtue of posting while calm
>  
> 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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