Jake, you are stating opinions as facts.  Not nice.
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On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Jake Anderson wrote:

> 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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