Re: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Discuss Space Policy

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:17:01 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Jorge
R. Frank" <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Rand Simberg wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:06:58 +0100 (CET), in a place far, far away,
Wallace Wright <wwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:50:56PM +0000, Rand Simberg wrote:
Could I ask you a question, a simple English question. What does the
word "commercial" mean? Surely it is to do with trading and making
money.
What a bizarre, non sequitur question.
I'm working under the assumption that poor Ian is suffering from some form
of dementia or ADHD that impairs his ability to present ideas in a more
consistent stream. There's no profit in making fun of him for his
disability but you might be able work around it if you keep it in mind.

No, it's really not possible to "work around it." There is no
"profit" in trying to carry on a discussion with him at all.

And yet, you keep replying to him.

"Replying to him" != "having a discussion with him." And I rarely do
so. I ignore most of his posts.

Usually (though admittedly not in this case), the only time I respond
to him is to disabuse others of his latest fantasy about me. If he'd
stop taking my name in vain I'd just killfile him. I probably will
anyway.

Of course, I'll also probably abandon Usenet completely, eventually,
as so many others seem to have.
.

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