[LINK] What's a reasonable level of code-checking?

[Frank O'Connor]

Doesn't take long, does it Vic?

A few lucid posts. Reasonable adherence to the rules of debating ... 
and then back to the 'commie' 'leftist', 'dole bludger' personal 
insults and ad hominem attacks - after what I must say was a VERY 
shaky rebuttal. Is it only when you are losing a debate that 'Bad 
Vic' comes out to play or what? I mean it seems pretty coincidental 
that every time you are on the short end of the stick, the insults 
and personal insinuations start to fly and the argument degenerates 
into noise.

At any rate ... since this gives me some time to indulge in a 
favourite pastime, so I suppose it would be crass to complain. And I 
do so enjoy our little sessions, Vic.

As usual, you've contributed more heat than light to the discussion, 
but the bone of contention in most of your arguments is solidly 
between your ears. You're so narrow minded you have to stack those 
rare ideas vertically ... and then run through them ad nauseam, time 
and time and time again my redundant young weasel.

And you're redundant with your insults as well Vic. They're certainly 
well practiced ... all three or four of them ... and bought out to 
play with monotonous regularity. And the really funny thing about 
them is that anyone with the brains of a retarded rock wouldn't even 
recognise them as insults.

"'Commie', Dad? What's that?"
"Well. way back in the last century we had these bozos that believed 
in a failed economic theory, son ..."
"But this guy just called me a Commie, Dad"
"He's probably just Redundant son"
"Redundant, Dad?"
"Mmmm ... think Vic Cinc"
"Oh ... you mean a cretin."
"That's right, Son."

But with you, Vic it's seriously hard to believe that yours beat 
100,000,000 other sperm to the prize. I mean, the others must've been 
laughing so hard that it seriously interfered with their motile 
performance. And there is no way you could be your own worst enemy 
... not with 6 billion other people on this planet. If it's true that 
what you don't know can't hurt you - you're bloody invulnerable!

But you do have your uses , Vic - Blondes probably tell jokes about 
you and hence feel better about themselves.

Now I'd really appreciate it if you could learn a bit about debating 
technique, rebut rather than insult, and generally follow the rules 
of civilised social interaction ... but I suppose this is a forlorn 
hope. I mean, nothing in the past indicates that the Vic neuron has 
any capacity over and above what it currently encompasses - which 
isn't a lot. (Is your life really as empty as it appears? Is the 
whole totality of your interests and aspirations encompassed by that 
narrow band of ideas that you express? I mean ... your soul seems to 
be a desert, a wasteland for everything that makes everyone else 
human.)

In the interim, Vic, zip it if you can't debate it.

						Regards,

At 11:34 AM +1000 on 21/8/06 you wrote:
>Rick Welykochy [pirkeepie at yahoo.com.au] wrote:
>>  --- "Darryl (Dassa) Lynch" <dassa at dhs.org> wrote:
>>
>>  > In otherwords, we are fast becoming a society of genius/idiots.  I used to
>>  > study history with an aim to understand the future, one thing I 
>>gained from
>>  > that was an appreciation for the cycles we go through.  We grow, expand,
>>  > innovate then specialise, finally comes the downfall.  We are 
>>currently in the
>>  > specialise section from my analysis.  I'm not sure what the 
>>downfall will be
>>  > like.
>>
>>  One can certainly imagine a few salient points of degradation of society:
>>
>>  (*) lifespans in the west begin to drop as we eat our way into oblivion,
>>      both through quantity of food consumed and sad quality of 
>>processed junk;
>>      heart disease and cancer become rampant killers of a sedate robot class;
>>      see "Fast Food Nation" 
>>(http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/books/schlosser.html)
>>
>>  (*) as global warming marches on, 100's of millions will become 
>>eco-refugees;
>>      see "An Unconvenient Truth" by Al Gore 
>>(http://imdb.com/title/tt0497116/)
>  >
>>  (*) depression and mental disorders begin to rank as the number 
>>one afflications
>>      in a disaffected and disconnected society
>>
>>  (*) health care and education services continue their decline in 
>>the west which
>>      kills both human beings and scientific innovation
>>
>>  (*) with little to stop them, mega multinational corporations and 
>>their governments-
>>      in-waiting accelerate their transfer of wealth and health from the lower
>>      classes to the rich,
>>
>>  I could go on and on, but this isn't a Pessimism 101 class.
>
>lifespans are still on the rise. there are no current eco refugees and
>probably wont be this century. society is more connected then ever and this
>trend accelerates. aside from socialised medicine and public education,
>all these services along with innovation continue to rise. companies do
>not transfer wealth, they create it. only commies insist on looking at
>one side of a transaction.
>
>Vic
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