Re: Computer Statement Usage

From: Robert Wagner (robert_at_wagner.net.yourmammaharvests)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:57:07 GMT

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:07:22 -0700, "Chuck Stevens"
<charles.stevens@unisys.com> wrote:

>(Top posting):
>
>I am having difficulty understanding how the average reader of a response
>such as the one below would be stimulated to anything but contempt and
>disgust toward its author.

You're right. The next morning I regretted posting it.

I wrote it after spending 24 hours battling hackers, followed by an
hour or two celebrating victory. Putting it bluntly, I was drunk.

>> This ain't the place for Miss Manners gentility; this is the internet,
>> born of primal slime. Trojan authors in China and former USSR think
>> decency is weakness. If you can't play on their turf, you lose. I've
>> played on their turf and won.
>>
>> Decency-of-soul? Ask two million Sudanese being systematically
>> slaughtered by their own government, today. Or a million Watutsi
>> killed by machetes in Rwanda during the 90s.
>

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