Re: Old Apple 2 Crackers & Pirates forum

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toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) wrote:

>But all that matters to most people here is whether or not he _tries_ to
>help them out and most of all, his introductory cuddly politeness. If
>anyone here deserves the title "most likely to mistaken for a politician"
>then it is good ol' Dr. Tom.

I'm not a big fan of Dr. Tom either, Todd, but at least he leaves me
alone and I get to skip most of his threads.  Nathan's the one who
keeps flaming normal, NON-PIRATE people like myself.  Todd, are
you saying I have to flame Dr. Tom as a .sig file to each of my
posts to get Nathan off my back?  Sorry.  He's the one who caused
me to lose respect for him...(check DejaNews...there was a period
of time when he jumped into EVERY ONE of my threads and
flamed!)

If Nathan was a leader of a country, he would have failed horribly.
It would be like if Nathan was the President of the United States
and wanted to enlist Canada to help with the war on drugs.  No
matter how disgusted he is with drugs, he HAS to act civilized
when talking to the Prime Minister of Canada.  If he jumps up and
down and curses and attacks the Canadian Prime Minister, I
doubt we'd have Canada as an ally.

>Nathan, however, believes very much in the Principles of Truth and Justice
>Upon Which Our Great Civilization Was Built. When someone goes back on
>their word repeatedly and refuses to own up to it, that's essentially the
>biggest possible loss of honor in Nathan's book.

So take it up with Dr. Tom, not people like me or your average
new user.

I agree with the above statement...Principles of Truth and Justice.
Dr. Tom pirating software is wrong.  I have never downloaded
anything from any pirate site, so Nathan attacking me is wrong
also.  If he lost the respect of people on this group (not LJ or
Tom or Rubywand, but myself, most new users, and even
developers like Brian and Beverly) it is his own fault.

>But even though Nathan was technically in the right on that issue, no one
>cared. That's what Nathan couldn't handle -- the total absence of respect
>for law that this place has finally come to represent.

Err...Todd, I was one of the first to speak out against AW5
and PT3 being on Asimov.  What's Nathan's excuse for flaming
me?  Let's be realistic...piracy is wrong and if people want to
launch a thousand flames at Dr. Tom, fine.  Just don't point
your flames at everyone else, ok?  The moment he crossed
that line, Nathan loss my respect.