Re: the splendors of unsocialized medicine
From: Rob Duncan (robduncan_at_gbronline.com)
Date: 11/05/04
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 21:17:59 -0800
"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message
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> "Rob Duncan" <robduncan@gbronline.com> wrote:
>
>> Inventing statements and then arguing against them
>> is a tactic of a 12 year old.
>
> Perhaps then that's why I suggested you stop using
> strawman arguments, wouldn't you think? Only I
> evaluated your usage there as that of a nine year
> old, and I'm sure my estimate is closer to the mark.
>
>> I dont mind bragging at all. By the end of next
>> year youll see two more of my products advertised
>> on national television.
>
> My, my, you have some _one_ thing, maybe, maybe two,
> maybe coming out someday, about which to brag?
>
> How splendid for you, a real triumph over your broken
> body.
>
> See appendix.
>
>> Ive never complained about me.
>
> You have trouble communicating without lying, I see.
>
>> The lie?
>
> So sorry, we played "where did I lie" with Stan
> Rothwell here for four solid months. Entry to that
> game has been closed to all self-demonstrated
> pathological liars now.
>
>> Hmm... What will live on in "your" name?
>
> You, for one thing, and six billion other humans,
> and the rest of life on earth. I spent fifteen
> months working under water to assure that would be
> true, a while ago.
>
> You care to toss your accomplishments in the balance
> against that one? Then a few of the rest are listed
> below.
>
> xanthian.
>
> Appendix:
>
> My legacy? It's not something "upcoming, contact my
> friend in rec.org.mensa for confirmation".
>
> Look around the free world.
>
> See those cities, still intact, instead of
> radioactive craters?
>
> My legacy, of 15 months living under water as a
> Polaris Missile Technician, to prevent a first
> strike nuclear war from looking like a good idea
> to the Soviets.
>
> Look at the output of Pixar, and Dreamworks, and
> several others.
>
> See all that splendidly integrated animation?
>
> My legacy, of 54 months working with ANSI TC X3H3,
> standardizing computer graphics programming
> languages.
>
> Watch the weather channel.
>
> Hear the more accurate understanding of world wide
> weather and climate, ten day forecasts where two
> days used to push the state of the art?
>
> My legacy, of two seasons spent mooring and
> recovering monster buoys along the Pacific equator,
> so El Nino could be understood.
>
> My legacy, from a season working off the coast of
> Africa, studying the Intertropical Convergence Zone
> with over 120 different meteorological instruments,
> from troposphere-seeking weather balloons to
> Conductivity, Temperature, Depth sounders.
>
> See people retreating in millions from Florida
> lowlands when told hurricanes were coming, and
> thereby saving their own lives?
>
> My legacy, of working 30 months improving the
> reliability of tropical cyclone forecasting
> software, and thus its reputation, so people
> would trust it enough to bother to survive.
>
> Some of those graphs you see on the screen are
> mine.
>
> Sail a sailboat or a passenger ship around Santa
> Catalina Island, California, or a merchant,
> personal, or military vessel into San Diego,
> California, or a pleasure or fishing boat or
> commercial ship in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
>
> See the charts being used for navigation?
>
> My data, from several seasons spent gathering
> hydrographic data in launches and ships, reduced to
> charts by my software, from sixty months spent
> turning nautical charting from a pen and paper
> process to a computerized one.
>
> Look at the rich people with their satellite
> cellular phones.
>
> See them communicating from remote areas far from
> Cell phone networks?
>
> My legacy, from software efforts on Globalstar and
> IRIDIUM.
>
> Look at the commercial airliner, flying far from
> cities.
>
> Hear the pilot checking in with the distant airport,
> by telephone, the stewardess confirming the meals to
> be loaded at the next stop, the passengers using
> phones cradled in the seat backs of the seat ahead?
>
> My legacy, from software efforts on SATCOM LREs.
>
> Look at Usenet.
>
> See people enjoying themselves trading knowledge in
> technical newsgroups?
>
> My legacy, thirteen of those newsgroups were created
> by my efforts.
>
> See the Usenet Volunteer Votetakers?
>
> My legacy, inspired not by my successes but by one
> of my most famous errors.
>
> See the software autocancelling massive crossposts?
>
> My legacy, inspired by a net.war I conducted, to
> prevent me ever doing so again.
>
> See the graduate students practicing new skills in
> artificial intelligence software implementation?
>
> My legacy, from perhaps a hundred tutorials
> written and posted to comp.ai.*, and from example
> software I wrote and donated to the world.
>
> See newsgroups where you still own the things you
> write?
>
> My legacy, after steps invented and promulgated to
> the rest of the net, and widely enough adopted at
> the time to be successful, to prevent Compuserve and
> StarGate and others in the Usenet "store and
> forward" chain from claiming "compilation
> copyrights" on forwarded news articles as a
> collection.
>
> My defensive list of "things I've already invented",
> so new employers won't try to claim them as their
> own, fills many pages, listing items in half a dozen
> technical fields, and is never up to date, because I
> don't stop design and development just because I'm
> retired.
>
> Three distinctive features of the equatorial Pacific
> sea floor are named after members of my family.
>
> Now, that's (part of) _my_ legacy. Toss yours in the
> other pan, and we'll see how yours balances against
> "the survival of human civilization".
>
> xanthian.
71 patents.
Rob
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