From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:08:20 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
      
   >>> "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:pan.2004.12.27.08.52.01.11118@edenroad.demon.co.uk...   
   >>>> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 22:26:59 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> snip of pointless argument:   
   >>   
   >> Good idea.   
   >>   
   >>> David:  when I grew up, which may be before your time, there were such   
   >>> things as modify permissions.   
   >>   
   >> There doubtless are; but they are not what you say they are.   
   >   
   > Ok, let me be more blunt:  fuck you, brick head.  Sorry, but there it   
   > is.   
      
   Ah, insults followed by running away.  Your usual pattern.   
      
   > I know what I know, and I usually point out what I don't know, but I *do*   
   > know there were modify permissions in Unix on THIS side of the pond, and   
   > there were DEFINITELY modify permissions in GCOS.   
      
   Which isn't UNIX.   
      
   Again, there are, almost certainly, "modify" permissions in some OS'es,   
   but they are not what you said they were.   
      
   > I never expect people to believe what I say.  In fact, for the better part   
   > of my life, I've found that no one understands a word that I say, and I   
   > finally found out why when my IQ was tested and found to be at the 99th   
   > percentile:  because the rest of the world is full of dumbfuckers with   
   > limited imaginations who simply don't soar on the clouds I prefer to   
   > visit.   
      
   Yet, oddly enough, those who have IQ's in similar ranges are generally   
   able to demolish your arguments fairly easily.   
      
   Perhaps you're not as clever as you think you are.   
      
   > The only thing I know for certain is:  the more I know, the more I know   
   > there is more I don't know.  I could be right, wrong, or both on any given   
   > situation, and so could you.  But to come out and tell me I don't know what   
   > I'm talking about when I'm simply trying to convey entertaining ideas with   
   > glimpses of truth, well, fuck you very much, but I have better ways to spend   
   > my time.   
      
   Ah, "glimpses of truth".  What a telling phrase.   
      
   > Folks, I'm winding down here.  too much typing and too little time.  Looks   
   > like I'll be leaving for another spell until I get my wind back.   
      
   That'll be the "running away with your tail between your legs" bit then.   
   You may have to wait a little longer for people to forget this time.   
      
   And I'll be waiting when you get back ;-)   
      
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