Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Jinx wrote:
>   
>>> Olin is not responsible for other people's reactions
>>>       
>> Of course he is. Everybody is. That's what communication
>> is all about. If you stopped to ask directions and was told
>> "Don't be lazy. Go and buy a map, it's all in there, stupid",
>> would you feel just ever so slightly pissed off ?
>>     
>
> How you feel is irrelevant, it's what you DO about it that matters.  You'd
> have no right, for example, to run the person over with your car, pull out a
> gun and shoot him, or yell at him at the top of your lungs.  And if you did
> do any of those, you can't blame it on the person that refused to help.
>
>   
That's the thing, how I feel is relevant *To Me*, and since I have an 
equal say in what goes on as you do, that makes it important to you/
Perhaps if you understood that other people have feelings you would 
understand why you are the only person who is having difficulty 
participating in this community in a manner regarded as "civil" by the 
other list members.

If you want to join in you have to play by the rules, and the first rule 
is don't upset other people overly much.
If you get warned/kicked/banned/whatever that is an indication that you 
have exceeded the "overly much" portion.

Heck its like the FCC rules or something.
The device must accept some level of harmful radiation without malfunction.
The device may not emit harmful radiation over a certain level.

As to what those levels are, well you tries it and sees, 99.9% of the 
list seems to have basically no problem.
(and I calculated that 99.9% btw, its not just a number, Is that enough 
for you to see that you are the odd one out, not everybody else?)

There is a double standard, anybody else would just get banned, you are 
being included at the expense of admin time and effort, that is a rare 
thing, you should be thanking them for the effort they go to on your part.

Oh one last thing. The internet isn't a democracy, if it was you would 
be banned ages ago and you would get re-banned each time you posted 
again, I have been in enough voting type online situations to know how 
that works, you don't make "friends and allies" of the general public 
and in the political game that follows that's what you need.  "King" 
James does an admirable job of keeping the peace amongst the serfs 
without any of the power tripping usually associated with a position of 
power, and if you don't like it your welcome to leave.

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