Re: OT:Just to Cheer your Weekend

On Nov 8, 12:23�pm, "ScottW" <Scott...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Nov 8, 10:03?am, ScottW <Scott...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Nov 8, 8:58?am, Vinylanach <vinylan...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 8, 8:09 am, ScottW <Scott...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 7, 7:17 pm, Vinylanach <vinylan...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 7, 12:25 pm, ScottW <Scott...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28896/pub_detail.asp

Or maybe not.

ScottW

Why does this feel like an American remake of the Fassbinder film
"Ali:Fear Eats the Soul"?

No worries for the soulless.

That's not the point. The election is over, and you're still
feverishly scanning the Internet for political stories and blogs that
conform to your own ideologies. ?Honestly...do you think this is a
productive way to spend your life?

?Do you think foolishly pondering how I spend my life is
a productive way to spend yours?

:Do you think I sit around pondering about your life?

Feverishly.

Nonsense. At first I was concerned about someone I considered a
friend. I've even received emails from people asking me if you're
okay, since you seem to have really gone off the reservation since the
election kicked up a notch. But if you want to be just another
antagonistic Internet geek, then you're on your own.


: Honestly?
:Really? �Or is that the debating trade?

Is this a productive moment for you?

If I can get you to tone down the excessively negative and
antagonistic OT posts, then yes. I'm not holding my breath.


?You do make some absurd proclamations.

:About what?

�Duh.

About duh?




I like Adam Carolla's take on all this...to the average guy in
America, politics do not affect everyday living. ?I tend to agree with
this, since my personal ups and downs in life have not matched what's
going with the rest of the country.

?Funny, I was talking with my son and said the same thing to him
when he asked what will happen now. I said taxes will probably
go up, health care insurance may change a bit, and the screeching
on the cable news with political operatives shouting over each
other may calm down a bit. ?But beyond that, nothing much.

:Well, the screeching on RAO certainly hasn't stopped after the
:election.

I know, you really need to calm down.

That makes no sense.


: I, along with a few others here, was hoping it would. �Bret
: Ludwig pretty much posts in a vacuum. �You would too, except it seems
: that your trolling skills are much better.

Feel free to displace my threads with more interesting ones.
I wish you all success, truly.

I agree with you that your threads are not interesting.


Best I can hope for is that the gov't will really enforce fair
trade with China and their gov't fixed currency
?and tell the WTO to go pound sand.
You think that might happen?

: I think a lot is going to happen.

�Now you seem to be contradicting yourself.

I don't see that at all.

But a lot
is pretty vague. �I breath a lot. Do you breath a lot?
That's bad for the planet but I can't help it.

I made a comment that is vague by design. The point behind it,
however, is not vague at all. Do you see it?




Anyway, you really need to stop thinking you can assess a persons life
from usenet posts. ?That's just way to internet geeky for me.

:Show me where I'm assessing your life.

"you're still feverishly scanning the Internet for political stories and blogs
that
�conform to your own ideologies. ?Honestly...do you think this is a
productive way to spend your life?"

It is an objective observation that you constantly post links to right-
wing blogs. Then I asked you an honest question which you could not
answer. There is no assessment involved, but i'm sure others can see
your response and make their own conclusions about your online
persona.


: �I'm talking about what you're
:doing here...spreading bad feelings about the world around us.

�OMG...bad feelings. �Maybe I should just post lyrics to
Mama's and Papa's songs.

NO. But maybe you should stop talking about how fucked we all are.
You never provide solutions, I noticed.


�Seriously, if you get bad feelings off usenet, time to drop the AOL
account, cable TV, the newspaper and AM radio.

I don't listen to AM radio, read newspapers, and I spend less than an
hour a day watching cable TV (and it's not for news). I do, however,
make a living while online so I have to take the bad with the good.


: Try
:putting some effort into spreading some good feelings.

It's a beautiful sun shiny day in San Diego. �Happy now?
No? Try this.

http://pbskids.org/barney/

You certain seem to be threatened by happy feelings.



?There's nothing wrong with being
interested in politics, or participating in our government. ?But when
you let it consume your everyday life, when you get excited and
frustrated and angry and jubilant and despondent over people you do
not know on a personal level, then you're forfeiting your personal
responsibilities.

? Wow. ?All this from a couple of usenet posts.

:A couple? �Really? �You mean I've never mentioned this before? �You
:mean you've only posted negative threads on RAO TWICE? �REALLY?

Calm down Dr. Phil. �The election is over. Usenet posting isn't worth
getting all freaked out about. �It's not I dressed up in a tutu and stood
outside a polling place or something.

But you did accuse another RAO regular of doing so (of course it was
in a "too too"). What did you do during the election period for you
fellow man?


?Thank-you Dr. Phil. ?Maybe you can go rescue Britney now. LoL.

:I'm not so concerned with your life as much as how you're bringing
:down the whole group with your naysaying (most of it merely
:regurgitations from other naysayers). �That's hardly a Dr. Phil
:attitude.

�LoL. �You gonna rescue RAO from me? �Good luck.
�Anyone familiar with your posting history would find this
assertion of a claim to a high road less than credible.
Actually delusional is more apt description.

The idea is not to make RAO righteous or good. It's to make it
entertaining. Obsessive OT posters such as you and Ludwig are pure,
unadulterated drudgery. Does anyone ever email you to thank you for
your posts here? Really? Why not?

?Thanks for your advice but I think I'll do as I please and ignore
your fake pompous righteous zealotry.

:Wow...looks like I hit a nerve.

It your accomplishment of the day.

No, my accomplishment of the day is to enjoy the day and to be
productive. I'm in the middle of writing 10 articles.


?I haven't had anyone claim the authority to give such advice
?since my confirmation. I was 12. ?Thankfully I ignored
that pile of bile, I think I'll do the same with your BS.

:That's fine. �It's a shame that I'll have to killfile you as well.

Please don't waste another moment.

Well, I was giving you a last chance to not appear childish, surly and
sociopathic.

I'm sure you'll still be [sic] snidely comments as your [sic] often do.
Maybe a Palin campaign aide is you [sic] next career option.
You do have the persona for it.

Are you upset?


:For someone who thinks they're "saving the group," you certainly have
:no concept of how your comments affect others.

Newsflash. �Nothing left worth saving unless you think your silly
Arny spats are worth something.

If that's true, then why are you still here? I come to RAO to hang
out with friends and shoot the ***. I bet you Arny is here for the
same reason. This is fun. If it isn't fun, you shouldn't be here.
And frankly, I see a distinct lack of fun in all of your posts. Most
of your threads resemble a crazy person who stands on street corners
and screams at the passing traffic.




If you don't like what's going on in the world, do something about
it. ?Don't post endless OT political posts on an AUDIO newsgroup.

What audio discussions? Yours? ?LoL.

:Well, if you want to burn the bridge, you've certainly pulled out the
:right book of matches.

�What bridge? � The I-35?

Are you mistaking me for Stephen?

�You've been begging me to quit ignore you're snarky comments
for a year now.

Wow. Not sure what that meant.


Lets hear about the latest "stardust" ?invention.

:You means the ones I've heard and you haven't?

Sure. You hear lots of stuff. But you rarely talk about it anymore.
Why?

Because I'm too busy writing about it. And talking about it on forums
where people behave.

Right now I'm reviewing these products:

Gradient Helsinki 1.5 speakers
conrad-johnson Classic preamplifier
conrad-johnson LP66S amplifier
Pro-Ject Tuner Box
Shanling CD-T1500 CD player
WLM La Scala Monitor loudspeakers
Denon DL-160 cartridge
Aperion Audio Intimus 5B speakers
Martin-Logan Purity active speakers

If you have any specific questions about my experience with any of
these products so far, feel free to start a new thread.



Or maybe you can explain why your choice of audio preamps
provides such thin documentation on performance?

:Funny...my reference is an solid-state integrated that offers a solid
:set of measurements. �What is this "mystery preamp" you speak of?

�The recently purchased black cube. �It may be great. It may not.
But it is so poorly documented by the manufacturer as to not be
worthy of "flyer" consideration. �I'd opt for a Sutherland in that
price bracket.

Oh...phono preamp. Yes, I listened to several $1000 phono preamps and
the Lehmann Black Cube SE sounded the best to my ears. You're saying
I shouldn't have bought it because the specs are not documented well
enough? Hmmm...the owner's manual seems to have as many specs
available as the Sutherland's did.




That's the reason why people line up to argue with you.

?A line up of 3....oops poor Stephen is always left out.

:Considering how many regulars are left, that's a pretty significant
:percentage.
: But you didn't have anything to do with that.

No. I think Arny had a lot to do with that.


�Far less than you. �I'm pretty tolerant of diverse opinions.

: You're
:saving RAO...for other right-wingers who need a place to whine and
:complain about the world.

How many OffT threads were started when I was busy for a month or so?
How many OnT posts?
For that matter, how many OffT trolls of me?
And not a comment from you.
You just want to cuddle in your haven of like minded thought.
Even George would find that too boring and starting picking
at you as he recently did.

He started picking at me? Really? I hadn't noticed. George and I
have an uncanny ability to discuss any differences we have like
adults. Is that what confuses you?

And as far as RAO statistics go, you sound a bit like GeoSynch who
claimed I needed to read every post here so that I could judge the
other members and what "side" I should be on. I take a more holistic
approach to RAO than that. If I see 95% of all new threads being
either an OT topics from you or more racist/sexist scree from Ludwig,
I'm disappointed and log off. This whole BS about me "being away for
long periods of time" is simply bull***. If nothing is going on, I
move on. My so-called "unexplained absences" are merely periods where
nothing of interest is happening.



..because it's
easy to make fun of someone who whines and complains about everything
and does nothing.

? You guys have nothing to do but make fun of people on the 'net. It's
what you
do on the internet. Without it, you've got nothing.

:That conveniently ignores several truths, such as the fact that I've
:made several business contacts and friendships here over the years.
:So obviously there's more to RAO than making fun of people.

Ancient history. �Once upon a time.....

Nope, just recently. Bob's little temper tantrum a few months ago
resulted in a business deal from someone who thought, like Bob, that
Perfect Sound Forever was somehow what I really did for a living.
When I showed them what I really did, they were excited and bought in.


?This Dr. Phil approach is just more of the same.

:If you think that everyone who tries to speak to you honestly about
:your behavior is a "Dr. Phil," then be prepared for an ever-shrinking
:circle of friends.

LoL. �Friends come and go. Sometimes they simply aren't the
person they put on to be. �I have no use for people like that.

Friends "come and go"? Really? Hmmm...I'm looking over at the picture
of me and my best friend back when we were still in our mother's
wombs. I still talk almost weekly with my high school and college
girlfriend. I recently had lunch with three of my best friends from
high school in Orange County. I'm a business partner with a woman
I've known since junior high.

This "come and go" thing...how does it work?




?So stop ponitificating about my life of which you know very little.
It's just fine. You've got plenty of your own problems to deal with.

:Like the fact that we need more audio discussion on this newsgroup,

Go for it. I won't trash your thread or even disrespect your suspect
opinions.

I know you won't. I give you that much credit.


:and less posting to right-wing blogs.

But left-wing blogs are ok. �Funny how that works.
Sorry. �You don't get to dictate my posting habits.

NO, I don't. I was just making comments. If you actual did anything
I told you, I'd fall over in shock.


: I'm not pontificating, I'm
:merely pointing out than when you whine and complain obsessively to a
:bunch of relative strangers, you bring everyone else down.

�Try not to be such a whimp.

A wimp (not a whimp) would keep quiet, not tell you to STFU already.


: You're not
:saving RAO, you're making it a shittier place to be. �You AND Bret
: Ludwig.

You haven't done anything to make RAO a better place since your
return.

What "return"? I've never left.

�So stop your whining and do something productive.

I have. I just think you were too busy with your gloom and doom to
notice. And if I get you to cut down on the negative, whiny,
nihilistic OT posts, I think that's really productive.

Boon
.

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