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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!u12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <870a9851-02de-4fc5-b972-c7e92f60cfbf@u12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: URCM - advice required please - a ban is pending!!! Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:59:35 -0700 (PDT) References: <20110408103041.556dc793@gododdin.internal.journeyman.cc> <90857uFq22U1@mid.individual.net> Lines: 38 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1302299975 27675 127.0.0.1 (8 Apr 2011 21:59:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 3244 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:40603

On Apr 8, 11:10=A0am, Tony Raven  wrote: > Simon Brooke  wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:29:12 +0100 > > Todal, suppose you have ten boxes each containing a cat and a poison > > cartridge rigged up to an atomic decay device. Suppose you open the > > first box and find the cat is alive. Suppose you open the second box > > and find the cat is alive. What does this tell you about what will > > happen when you open the other eight boxes? > > I think Heisenberg's cats are way beyond him based on the reasoning skill= s > demonstrated so far

That was unnecessary. Why must you and your ilk be so militantly intolerant of anyone disagreeing with you on the "hot button" issues? Why do you have to deprecate the whole of their existence instead of just shrugging and saying "Well, The Todal is generally knowledgeable, intelligent and reasonable, but I just happen to disagree with him on helmets"?

It seems impossible for you to acknowledge that two well-meaning, logical people can in fact disagree on pretty much anything. If someone is "wrong" on helmets, anti-car measures, or indeed URCM "moderation", then they automatically become entirely worthless in your book. In thinking like that, you must go through life summarily dismissing a great many people who could be useful to you in some way. Your loss I suppose, although such an attitude goes a good way towards explaining what was wrong with URC, what's wrong with URCM, etc.

(Do you still think I'm the same person as The Todal? I think that one's your best yet...you even felt the need to start a triumphant thread about your "discovery"...if it had only been a few days earlier then you could have saved face by claiming it was an April Fool.... But silly though this matter is, it does demonstrate that people like you and Chapman *will not* admit to being wrong about anything, however trivial, and no matter how obvious it becomes that you're wrong.)