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Re: Apple II sucks



In article <463o9j$ek8@drivel.ics.uci.edu>, jlee@clyde.ics.uci.edu (Orion
Pax) wrote:

>Too bad the people trying regulate everything can't apply the razor to the
>issue and reduce it to what it's all about.  Which is to regulate people
>for political, or possibly good-faith, purposes.
>
you  left out "good manners".  when entering into a conversation, it is
simply poor manners to throw epithets, garbage, and blue language around
as though it were water.  Unlike education, conversatio nis not a "lowest
common denominator" world.

>But this basically states that people can't judge for themselves what a
>moronic human being sounds like nor capable of doing something about it.
>(i.e. If somebody spams continuously on a newsgroup, use the killfile.
>      It's been evidenced recently that many didn't have knowledge of what
>      a killfile is or how to make one.
>)
My killfile grows daily, sometimes by leaps and bounds

>I prefer being exposed to the world and learning how deal with it than to
>be regulated as to what I should see and think, and than become as moronic
>as those who spam because I can't deal with it.
>
uh-huh... I'm sure yourparents felt that way when YOU were 12.

>One must get burned first to not be burned again.  It's learning, that's
>all it is and you become a better adjusted, graceful, and well-spoken
>person because of it.
>
"must"?  "MUST"?  um.. shall I say politely that I dispute that? pain is a
great teacher, granted, but so is pleasure.

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