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  • From: "Josh" <josh AT mercuryfs.net>
  • To: "'Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems'" <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: the british
  • Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:56:23 -0700


Hey, he ripped me, so why not. At least I kept my message short, cant say
the same about yours.
I don't ever hear Americans say 'cheers'. If I'm a troll, so be it. At least
you said it was laughable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Moniz [mailto:dnm AT pobox.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 11:58 PM
To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
Subject: Re: the british

>Ooops, his email ended in "cheers, - steve"... Perhaps he's a Brit....???
No
>wonder I pissed him off.
>
>You guys are more than the Texans of Europe, Britain is the best example of
>a worldwide failure to date!
>
>And to think, you Brits still bow before the queen.
>
>Oh, I love it. America beat your ass, with one of your own officers
>(Washington), then we saved it twice (WW 1 and 2).
>
>Oh, and the best part of the history books: when Washington rowed across
the
>Delaware, it was an act of desperation. But you Brits were passed out
drunk,
>after throwing a victory party..... and that's how we won our
Independence!
>Because of the drunken Brits!
>
>Hell, I'd trust those Aussie convicts, drunken Kiwi's, worthless Canadians,
>and poor Indians, before a Brit! The only thing Britain has going for them
>is the fact they speak English (incorrectly, I might add)...
>
>I cant wait for the next 4th of July, I'm going to celebrate it in Britain!
>
>Cheers mate

This is simultaneously laughable and appalling. Not only is Steve not
British, he's probably as American as anyone I know. Furthermore, I
do recall a number of messages back you making the statement:

At 6:45 PM -0700 7/30/01, Josh wrote:
>Besides, the freenet community seems to hide behind the 1st amendment too
>much, and I just don't agree with that philosophy. I respect patents and
>intellectual property. Besides, any computer hack with half a brain can
>bypass any copy protection scheme. Luckily, this email list says to keep
>philosophy and law out of it, so this will be my last submission on that
>topic.

And _now_ you're trying to channel Washington into some hair-brained
sense of self-righteous nationalism to rail against someone who isn't
even British? Furthermore, you sit there and reply to criticism with
useless retorts like:

At 1:20 PM -0700 8/9/01, Josh wrote:
>I find your lack of technical criticism to be a waste of time.

but decide it's fine for you to plague the list with this bullshit?

I'm not even going to get into the ridiculous bits of the whole
anti-British sentiment. It's immature and shortsighted, and I'm being
generous. This is not the way to either gain the respectful
consideration of people you consider to be colleagues or to try to
attract business partners.

Ian was right when he identified you as a troll, and I assumed as
much previous to that. I've mostly been watching, somewhat amused.
This last bit was just too over the top, but I'll go back to ignoring
you now.


--
Dan Moniz <dnm AT pobox.com> [http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/]

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