Re: Critics. How many have there been?

From: Lefty (Ye_at_h.Right)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:39:07 -0800

<mensanator@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> Lefty wrote:
> > > Almost 7.5 billion of them. The point of these groups is to show
> your
> > > ideas and get positive or negative feedback. And sorry to be a
> critic,
> > > but you're off-topic.
> > > Poly-poly man
> > >
> >
> >
> > I think that James must have had a very frustrating experience with
> math
> > somehow. This is very disappointing.
> >
> > I find the study of math to extremely relaxing. In fact, I've been
> working
> > through some refresher materials on my lunch breaks and find that
> solving a
> > few problems really eliminates alot of stress. It's rather
> counterintuitive,
> > because the public tends to associate math with stress. I find it to
> be
> > quite the opposite.
> >
> > It is initially amusing to see someone like James who is deliberately
> trying
> > to mislead people with nonsensical ramblings, but I'm already bored
> by it.
> > Maybe a statistical analysis of his methodologies would be in order.
> All the
> > data is just sitting on UseNet.
>
> Not all of it. James has a habit of deleting his posts from the
> Google archive. He sets up groups just so he can ban people from
> them. What can't be controlled must be detroyed. And what can
> neither be controlled nor destroyed, he fantasizes about destroying.
> Hence, we live in fear of The Hammer. Remember, the generals like him.

AHHHhhh.... The Hammer of Surrogate Factoring !!!

But - I must admit that I have been inspired by the balanced and technical
rebuttals which he attracts. Much of this is really quality material, which,
paradoxically, seems to lend some small amount of real value. And I strain
to say such a thing because he is so stubbornly wrong.