From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:09:04 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 27/12/2025 12:43 am, john larkin wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:05:57 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 26/12/2025 7:23 am, john larkin wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:01:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:00:03 -0800, john larkin    
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On 25/12/2025 5:44 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> Gentlemen,   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> It's 'that' time of year again and we've had some heated debates on   
   >>>>>>>> this group over the last 12 months, both from those who want to   
   >>>>>>>> explore different views and those who would rather shut them down at   
   >>>>>>>> any price. As a Christian conservative and a libertarian, I fall into   
   >>>>>>>> the former category of course, and bear no ill will to anyone here. So   
   >>>>>>>> a very happy Christmas to *all* our contributors here, of whatever   
   >>>>>>>> religious persuasion they may be, or none at all for that matter! And   
   >>>>>>>> have a happy and prosperous New Year.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Your pal,   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Cursitor Doom may think that he is a Christian conservative and a   
   >>>>>>> liberation (which happen to inconsistent ideologies) but the depressing   
   >>>>>>> reality is that he is a gullible sucker for the kind of propaganda that   
   >>>>>>> autocratic psychopaths (like Trump and Putin) dish out.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Thank you for the lovely Christmas spirit.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It was Bill and his fellow countryman Phil Alison who are responsible   
   >>>>> for me adopting the "Gentlemen" prefix to all my original posts here,   
   >>>>> in the hope that they'd both observe the implied wish that trolls were   
   >>>>> not welcome to respond.   
   >>>   
   >>> Decidedly comic, coming from a perfect example of an anonymous troll,   
   >>> denouncing two people who posted under their real names   
   >>>   
   >>>>> Sadly, it hasn't worked. In any event, I'd   
   >>>>> have thought Bill would have his time taken up elsewhere at this   
   >>>>> season of the year playing the pantomime villain at some local theatre   
   >>>>> in Sydney. A role for which he is, of course, perfectly suited.   
   >>>   
   >>>> He trashes everyone, even when it makes no sense. He must be very   
   >>>> unhappy.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't even trash John Larkin all the time - only when he posts stuff   
   >>> that is even more off the wall  than usual.   
   >>   
   >> If you reflexively reject crazy ideas, you won't invent many good   
   >> ones, typically none.   
   >   
   >I've got three patents, you've got your name on one.   
      
   Patents are expensive and most always useless.   
      
   I didn't want my name on the patent, but the company wanted to show a   
   lot of patents to encourage investors. They got the investors all   
   right: VCs who pumped and dumped and made $20 million or so for   
   themselves.   
      
      
   John Larkin   
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