[OT]: Zenkin's paper on Cantor (reply of Dr. Zenkin)

From: Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 02:26:30 +0000 (UTC)

Hmmm, look whose killfile I escaped yet again.

"Eray Ozkural exa" <examachine@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:

>> You are certainly an embarrassment to your
>> university's degree program....

> With these kinds of remarks, you only underwrite
> your mental illness.

Well, no, being mentally ill doesn't make me either
incorrect, or stupid. I don't happen to suffer from
a mental illness with those effects; mine just
prevents functional day to day living.

You are, indeed, an embarrassment to your
university's PhD degree program, an indication that
it is possible to be granted a degree without in the
process acquiring anything approximating the
education normally accompanying that degree. You
reinforce this point with each tedious, trolling
conversation you begin and prolong in technical
newsgroups far past its normal merciful death of
intense inanity.

> You have understood absolutely nothing from my
> posts, and this is not surprising.

Indeed. A more clueful person than you might
begin to suspect that the cause is the lack of any
meaningful intellectual content in your posts.

What is surprising is that you continue posting
them.

> But *you* are an amazing specimen.

Each of us likes to believe that of himself or
herself, but in the case of an atypical monopolar
depressive, the ability to convince oneself that is
true of oneself has mostly gone missing.
 
> Your attitude became apparent when you failed to
> understand the real content of the extremely
> simple k-means problem.

Your reference escapes me, but if this is about more
of your meaningless drivel wherein you argue "ad
infinitum et ad tedium" with world class experts,
from your base territory of "didn't pay attention in
class", I have to admit my eyes rather glaze over
the few times I make any effort to wade through the
reams of incomprehension you put forward as your
best approximation of intelligent thought.

> Your goal is not to understand.

There is little about you to understand. You are
suffused with your own importance to the point you
cannot recognize you have become merely an
impediment to the newsgroups where you participate.

This doesn't take great intellectual effort on my
part to realize, I just have to take notice of where
you are supporting positions even my own long gone
stale understanding of theory of computation knows
to be arrant nonsense. I can dependably deduce from
there that the material beyond my own skills which
is similarly classified by others whose opinions I
respect on long acquaintanceship with their writing
is _also_ you taking forceful positions in which you
are completely in error.

> Your goal is to abuse people.

Well, close. My goal is to teach people who are
unable to be quiet when they have nothing to say,
the virtues of acquiring that skill.

> AFAICT, you are merely a simpleton who knows how
> to google.

Which merely shows that you are willing to extend
your habit of "argument from ignorance" far outside
the technical venues. First, I'm not "a simpleton",
my work product is in use many, many places all
across the civilized world, and has been for several
decades.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a3eaa964.0411041820.42a5b0f3%40posting.google.com

Second, "knowing how to google" is not a trivial
accomplishment. I've had many professionals in the
fields where I give advice slap themselves virtually
on the forehead with a "why didn't I think to pose
the query that way".

> There are so many like you, Mr. Dolan, and most
> of them grow out of that behavior when they finish
> high school.

I doubt it. The lack of willingness to deal
cheerfully with the world's great oversupply of time
wasting morons, you prominent among them, is a very
common human attribute. People don't tend, over
time, to become more accepting of intense,
voluntarily indulged idiocy, but rather less so, as
the life remaining to be wasted by the eructions of
such imbeciles grows shorter.

> Disgusted

As well you should be. Now, what are the odds that
you will correct your behavior so that such public
pillorying of your misplaced and misguided efforts
is not a result you commonly encounter? You'll
notice that I am far from the only person expressing
this reaction to you, even in this single news
thread, so raving at me isn't going to change the
general result a bit.

The only way you can reduce the negative reactions
you receive is to reduce the amount of self-indulgent,
grotesquely technically incompetent, trolled postings
you produce.

Are you capable of taking that step?

xanthian. 

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