Re: Current situation, suggestion
From: David Moran (ktulwxwatcher_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/27/04
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:13:16 -0500
"James Harris" <jstevh@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I have some papers at math journals now, so I'm just kind of goofing
> off on sci.math partly because I'm bored, and mostly because I can.
>
> Now, various posters can choose to jump in and continue to reply to
> me, or you can wander off.
>
> It's your choice.
>
> Now I currently have several major results and decided that I'm more
> interested now in getting to some good discussions as I think the
> mathematics is fairly interesting, versus using the antagonistic
> process I pioneered mostly here on the sci.math newsgroup.
>
> Antagonistic processes--head-to-head argumentation--is GREAT with
> mathematics because mathematics is distinguished in that either you're
> right, or you're wrong.
It's even better when you cut your immaturity out of it as well.
>
> That is, if you have a particular result, it's either true or false.
>
> There's no debate about it, no committee, and no one gets to vote.
>
> Mathematical truth is totaly apolitical, cares nothing for social
> issues, and doesn't give a damn about convention or what you had for
> breakfast this morning.
>
> I love it.
>
> Basically I can be a rather, um, not nice person, with few people in
> the world liking me, and could even be really ugly and mean, but if I
> find a math result, none of that matters.
>
> It's either true, or it's false without regard to whether or not
> people care for a particular result.
>
> Now I knocked the "math establishment" for a while, but now I realize
> that I'd hung out too long on Usenet which is NOT the math
> establishment.
>
> Like, these days, when I send a paper to a math journal, they review
> it.
>
> It's a good thing. I like it. I've decided that the math
> establishment might not be so bad, but sci.math is kind of weird and
> posters here can be annoying because they're irrational.
>
> And sci.math posters clearly HATE algebra, which I find bizarre, and
> it annoys me.
We don't hate algebra. Clearly either your algebra is rusty or you're trying
to make up new rules.
>
> In any event, I'm just kind of hanging out here now, waiting on math
> papers on the fast track, unlike with that journal SWJPAM which sat on
> a paper of mine for over nine months!
>
> Life is good.
>
>
> James Harris
If you don't like what we say, don't post; it's that simple. Your
complaining is basically like a little kid hitting him/herself repeatedly
and complaining of pain. Get over yourself and get a life, James. How old
are you anyway? 8? 9? younger?
Dave
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