Re: List of Cranks here
From: Double-A (double-a_at_hush.ai)
Date: 03/13/05
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Date: 12 Mar 2005 22:27:04 -0800
Tom Potter wrote:
> "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
Ah, the Potterbot. All torqued up and back on line!
How about some photos of you, Potterbot, all installed, plugged in, and
humming, not of that old coot who programs and maintains you and
scavenges parts for you in China!
Double-A
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