eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (04/04/88)
(hit 'n' if you aren't interested in my reply to Jef's latest "display" of his "superior intellect".) In article <5590@well.UUCP> pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes: > A) that eight intelligent people (John F Carr, G.Gleason, Jef Poskanzer, > James W. Meritt, Karl Owen / Wayne Throop, Michael Friedman, T. Dave > Hudson, and Ed Kaulakis) somehow don't understand something that one > fool (Steve Elias) does understand; and from what i've read -- the 8 folks above have understood what i am talking about; they have been involved with the thread for months. you are the cheesehead who jumped in late and started spouting your Pournelle attitude. will you be quoting Larouche next? > B) that the efficiency issue matters at all, since the entire thermal > balance issue has proven to be bullshit. Jef -- this must be a shock to you -- but you aren't the final authority on what is 'proven' and what is not. 4 out of 5 planetary scientists will agree that the greenhouse effect and other thermal balance issues are THEORIES. perhaps you have lived on venus for a few million years, and can tell us with real authority what that planet's history is? >Tell ya what, Stevie Baby. You go right on believing that ten one-gigawatt.. thanks for continuing to keep me up to date on my beliefs. >Meanwhile, the rest of us are going to IGNORE you. thanks for speaking for the entire net. perhaps the eight people you named will ignore me -- perhaps not. i doubt they consider you to be more than an obnoxious snob. but i won't say for sure, because i don't like to put words in other peoples mouths... there are at least a few readers out there who are genuinely interested in the theory as i have learned it from Frank Drake. i'll be posting his notes and calculations if i find them after searching another basement or two. ... here is Jefy's armchair psychoanalysis: >By the way Stevie, I think I've figured out why you get so pissed off >whenever anyone displays intellect superior to yours. It's because it >happens so often! It must get really tiresome, eh? Poor Baby. poor is right on target. feel free to send money. as for your 'superior intellect' -- hogwash. earth to Jef. what you have displayed has nothing to do with intellect. others have indicated that they aren't interested in your bullshit 'intelligentsia' snobbishness. why don't you take a hint and button it? our president ronnie gets paid $200k to think and talk -- your pal Jerry P gets paid to be obnoxious in his public columns. i don't think any usenet readers pay you to 'display' how big your snobbishness is in public. i doubt that anybody on the net is interested in your slurs. nor are they interested in my replies to them. try using email -- your snobbishness doesn't mix well with any intelligence you may have. you seem to like posting imaginary email -- why don't you and your imaginary clay friends write some email as well? > "Not only do I not suffer snobs gladly, I don't suffer them AT ALL." (^^^^ not a quote from Jerry Pournelle ^^^^^)