Re: Space Shuttles Survive Jeanne; Assembly Building Loses More Panels

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:08:00 GMT

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:58:37 GMT, in a place far, far away,
fairwater@gmail.com (Derek Lyons) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

>simberg.interglobal@org.trash (Rand Simberg) wrote:
>>Are you really being so arrogant as to tell me what my preferences
>>are, and will be?
>
>Are you really so arrogant as to tell me that your few weeks
>experience trumps decades of experience? Are you really so ignorant
>as to *want* to experience all that self induced pressure and stress
>rather than learning to reduce it from those that know?

No. Whether I want to experience stress is irrelevant. It's not
self-induced. It's induced by the news. Always has been, always will
be.

>>Just because you're indifferent to the hassle of dealing with hurricane
>>warnings, doesn't mean that everyone is.
>
>It's not just me Rand. It's hundreds of thousands (millions?) or
>people with more experience than you.

You mean with more experience than me of having been in Puerto Rico
during hurricane season over several of the past several years
(including Georges, an almost direct Cat 5 hit on San Juan)?

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