Re: Google Feature Copies Your Hardrive

Janet Baraclough <janet.and.john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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from Sheldon Harper <sharper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

And so the sole tag team member chimes in on cue.

Er, no. You may not have noticed, but virtually everyother poster on
this group has contradicted your posts, got tired of you, and killfiled
you. Fran and I are a little more persistent, but soo we'll be tired of
you too. Then you'll be left talking to yourself and the trolls Jim and
Al

You posess the all seeing eye then? LOL

Stick to what you
understand, chambermaid.

See, there's one of your city-brain mistakes. You categorise people by
the work they do. Rural people don't do that, because they take it for
granted that their apparently modest and simple neighbour has developed
a wide range of skills and interests.

That's just plain wrong. Rural people here say, "Oh, he's a log truck
driver" and other similar categorizations just like they do in most
places in the world. If you're going to make up "facts" you'd do well
to make them reasonable. It is the rare human in any setting that doesn't
identify themselves and all around them on the basis of what it is they do
for a living.

Perhaps you need to get out more?

They know better than to guess at
financial or intellectual or social status by anyone's work or
appearance. Only city people do that, and boy do they make some stupid
assumptions.

I made a mistake in thinking you were civilized. Generally my errors are
in giving folks more credit that is really due, as I did with you. So
that's not to say you're never right, often you are. My mistake was
probably one of assuming you could keep it up.

Chambermaid is just one of a hundred jobs I've done. Every one of
them, even the lowliest and worst paid , taught me new skills that I
could turn to enhance my own lifestyle, and also into a much more
lucrative venture.

This is the classic Pygmalion problem. In the story version the young
woman was successful in outgrowing her roots, which Higgins initially
failed to grasp because in your society and culture the glass ceiling
existed as it continues to do today. You haven't clambered past the
chambermaid mentality, so you're what Higgins would have expected of
you had he spent his energies pulling you up out of whatever you were.

I'm a self-made skivvy who reached your rural dream before 30.

I never had a "rural dream." I spent a full 20% of my adult life living
in a rural environment even when I was working in R&D. While "self-made"
isn't a bad thing, and it certainly beats the hell out of not growing at
all, it is all too often a case of a little knowledge being dangerous.

Your strictly textbook understanding of Romeo & Juliet coupled with an
inability to "boil down" the story to a phrase or a short sentence is
typical of the self-taught.

You're the city smart arse who had to spent a lifetime
waiting for retirement before moving to a culture you're too old, and
too set, and too dim, ever to understand

Too bad you run so angry that you can't appreciate the humor in that
sentiment. To those of us with the experience accumulated by paying
attention throughout the wonderful experience of a full and rich life,
the "old fart" genre of flames is universally laughable.

Your time will come, God willing and the creek don't rise, and with
any luck you'll eventually be laughing just as I am now. Perhaps
by then you'll have acquired some modicum of wisdom.

In the meantime what you've written here is what I've come to expect
of you. If you were just a bit more intelligent you'd be finding
a way to make something worthwhile out of these discussions. I
invite you to try.

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