Re: List of Cranks here

From: Tom Potter (tdp_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:38:49 +0800

"Double-A" <double-a@hush.ai> wrote in message
news:1110510668.299005.86800@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
>> In article <d0ovug$1rs$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>,
>> Franz Heymann <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >"Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> >news:398632F5v5evpU1@individual.net...
>> >>
>> >> "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in
> message
>> >> news:d0l915$a67$3@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>> >> >
>> >> > "Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>> >> > news:395i2cF5vm03tU1@individual.net...
>> >> >
>> >> > [snip]
>> >> >
>> >> >> As my pappy used to say,
>> >> >> "A stuck pig squeals."
>> >> >
>> >> > Indeed you do. Your Pappy was wiser than you
>> >>
>> >> I squeal about people that attack messengers
>> >> rather than address messages,
>> >
>> >You've worked that saying to death by now.
>> >Buy a few new ones.
>> >
>> >> and the people who instigate conflict and war
>> >> for power and riches.
>> >
>> >Ditto
>>
>> It's like watching Saturday morning cartoons. Tom isn't a real
> person,
>> he's a two-dimensional character with predictable responses. When
> faced
>> with novelty, he just forces it into a cliched response about
> communist
>> Jews, the cost-effectiveness of relativity, or how everyone is
> squealing
>> like a stuck pig except for himself. We might as well be talking to
> the
>> cartoons on the TV, because what we get back has about as much
> relevance
>> and insight.
>
> That's why they call him "Potterbot"!
>
> I thought they took him off line a few months ago for reprogramming,
> but is seems that not much new has been added to his repertoire.
>
> He will probably respond to this post with his well-worn phraseology
> accusing me of "bushwhacking"!
>
> He can't help it. He's only a machine!

Can you imagine rational, intelligent, SANE men
getting all bent out of shape because of a machine???

Now I can imagine people with hidden, or anti-social agendas,
getting all shook up, and trying to keep the spotlight from being
put on them or their agenda, but I can't imagine
rational, intelligent, SANE people ganging up on a machine. 

-- 
Tom Potter
http://home.earthlink.net/~tdp
http://photos.yahoo.com/tdp1001

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