In article , Leo
writes:
On 13 Jan 2004 10:00:24 -0800, (N2EY) wrote:
Leo wrote in message
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On 12 Jan 2004 10:02:37 -0800, (N2EY) wrote:
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So let's recap:
With just a few posts, I was able to get you and others in a long,
lengthy and involved debate that had *nothing* to do with code testing.
I exposed how some folks want *me* to follow *their* standards
rather than my own.
I even got you to admit something good about K3LT.
And through all that I avoided any name-calling or use of
inappropriate words.
Jim,
This is really uncharacteristic of you.
That's actually a characteristic of me. Be predictably unpredictable.
Nope - not that one 
That's the one I was referring to.
Or did you mean the avoidance of name-calling and use of inappropriate words?
I am amazed that a well
educated man like yourself would publically take pride in the above,
given the behaviour that started it off in the first place.
You mean Kim's changing of attributions to make it look like I wrote
something I didn't? Water under the bridge.
Nope. Kim's putting her callsign back in to your posts (agreed, in
violation of Usenet convention) was in reaction to your intentional
changing of it to her name in your list. Against her wishes.
So her wishes are more important than my standards?
You remember that, don't you, Jim?
Bully-like behaviour, Jim?
Not by me. Who have I tried to bully into doing or not doing anything?
Bullying is the use of force - or the threat of force. No force or
threats at all in my actions or postings.
Wrong. Bullying also means "to treat someone in an overbearing or
intimidating manner". Overbearing? Yup.
Nope. Not from where I sit.
I wouldn't have thought it possible.
It isn't.
(ahem)
That's some set of flexible personal standards you have there.
Not at all. Was Ghandi a "bully" because he wouldn't do certain things
others said he "must" do or "should" do?
Ghandi? Ghandi didn't go out of his way to intentionally annoy folks,
now did he?
Some would say that's mostly what he did. He was very very "annoying", saying
that India should be independent, that Hindus and Moslems could live together,
making salt when it was against the law....
Very annoying fellow at times.
So I quote Maximus in the arena, surrounded by those he has
vanquished, as he says to the crowd:
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??!!!"
No.
dang. I thought you of all people would be.
Nope. Just wondering where the high behavioural standards of which you
frequently speak have gotten to. That's all.
You have read the Amateur's Code, haven't you? Courteous? Friendly?
Where have I been uncourteous or unfriendly?
Those words do not mean I must hide my standards under a bushel.
You know.
But hey, you beat Kim, right!
Not according to Kim.
Kim thinks she "beat" me. I disagree.
So we have a situation where neither Kim nor I feels like the loser.
That's perhaps the biggest achievement of the thread.
That's all that matters.....
Not at all. What matters is that I cannot be bullied into using a
callsign I think is inappropriate.
73 de Jim "My name is Gladiator" N2EY
Brilliant.
Thank you.
Not really
Ever see the film "Demolition Man"? Think of Edgar Friendly.
73 de Jim, N2EY