Re: [OT] (was): Robust Algorithms

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/12/04

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    In article <41bb256d$0$44110$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl>, JPL
    Verhey <matterDELminds@hotmail.com> writes
    >
    >"David Longley" <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
    >news:Tw6LthEX1huBFw+U@longley.demon.co.uk...
    >> In article <41b9eeab$0$44068$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl>, JPL
    >> Verhey <matterDELminds@hotmail.com> writes
    >>>
    >>>"David Longley" <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
    >>>news:ieinmHB2deuBFwKk@longley.demon.co.uk...
    >>>> In article <1102697500.780994.214210@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
    >>>> examachine@gmail.com writes
    >>>>>Conversations between Longley and Dolan are hilarious. It does read
    >>>>>like an absurd episode of blackadder. But British vs. American, one
    >>>>>is
    >>>>>not quite better than the other. (Not in this case at least)
    >>>>
    >>>> Perhaps you should take that as further indication of your not
    >>>> knowing
    >>>> what I was saying to him. Many of the things which seem absurd to
    >>>> you
    >>>> (and your chums) are just facts which are unknown to you and
    >>>> therefore
    >>>> a little unsettling perhaps.
    >>>>
    >>>> This is a common response to the unfamiliar and it's something you
    >>>> and
    >>>> your ignorant chums need to wise up to if you are going to do
    >>>> anything
    >>>> about your states of idiocy.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>Longley has been correcting me. I wonder what will become of me when
    >>>>>the correction is fully applied.
    >>>>
    >>>> With a little work on what I have told you (supported by some
    >>>> background reading on Quine and Skinner) you might find that you
    >>>> mature a little, learn a little, reduce the frequency that you write
    >>>> naive, idiotic sentences, and thereby help Kolmogorov turn less in
    >>>> his
    >>>> grave.
    >>>
    >>>You are like the ugly bitch looking at herself in the mirror in the
    >>>morning: "He deserves me.."
    >>>
    >>>
    >> You don't like learning much do you?
    >>
    >> You're empathising with others who are behaving as you do, this is
    >> like listening to yourself - and it's stupid if you are really
    >> interested in learning anything.
    >
    >Good to know you are a faithful believer full of your own assumptions.
    >It makes you appear human.
    >
    >>
    >> Perhaps you should give a little thought to what makes prejudiced
    >> xenophobes such "rednecks", and then consider the possibility that
    >> they don't all fit the conventional stereotypes.
    >
    >Your statements are rarely to the point and never interesting.
    >
    >
    >
    I've reminded you before that whilst this is indeed how *you* respond to
    what I've written (here and elsewhere, although I'm not sure how much of
    what I've written elsewhere), others might see that as just your
    eccentric way of telling us that you don't understand/like what you
    read.

    I've seen no evidence that you have understood what I've advised you to
    read, but I *have* seen plenty of evidence which shows that you
    misunderstand (and verbally misrepresent) much else that you claim to
    have read.

    In this way, you behave like Zick and Michaels (to name but two). Each
    of you get your facts wrong, each of you become abusive when you're
    corrected, and none of you seem to be at all interested in learning from
    criticism. I reckon you'll appear much the same way to other c.a.p
    readers as you do to me (at least to those who are also aware of the
    facts that you all keep getting wrong).

    You have to accept the possibility that some of the things that you
    believe to be true, may, despite what you think, be completely false.
    This comes down to how you (verbally) behave. You seem to look for
    support (reinforcement) from others who also have their facts wrong.
    This is never a good strategy - in fact it's an idiotic way of behaving
    as the only way that any of you are likely to discover where your errors
    are is through listening to those who try to correct you, and by then
    changing your behaviour subsequent to their criticism. Each of you fail
    to do this. Defiantly, each of you has regularly stated that you have no
    intention of ever doing so either! This is why you all fall into the
    same class. Whilst each of you illustrate something which is almost
    universal in behaviour (to some degree or another) in each of your
    cases, it's truly remarkable. Based on your behaviour to date, none of
    you show much likelihood of changing.

    To give you and others some idea of just how wrong/unproductive this
    behaviour is, I've referred to each of you as "idiotic".
    David Longley
    http://www.longley.demon.co.uk/Frag.htm

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