A wise old philosopher once said, "It is one thing to shoot yourself in
the foot. But it is really dumb to shoot yourself in the balls."
mumsy wrote:
>
> I'm one of those folks who might be tempted to do something just to piss
> someone off that I know had a faulty view on something. I do this in
> hopes of flushing out this faulty view and having them realize on their
> own that its wrong.
>
> Recently on the MG BBS I have escalated a flame war (private) between
> myself and this older fellow (who shall remain nameless - if you're on
> the BBS you know) about young drivers and proper driving technique.
> This guy is just throwing stuff at me and I don't know where its coming
> from. It's like trying to have a discussion using the rules of formal
> logic with my father. I love my father very much, but we've had some
> real good arguments while I was growing up, some of them quite heated.
>
> On this copyright thing, I am going to go out of my way to put Land
> Rover logos on my web page now. I'm going to devote a whole page of
> them. I will e-mail rover and tell them about it, and ask them if
> they'd like to sue me. Perhaps they'll see how silly it is to do what
> they're doing. All we consumers want to do is enjoy our vehicles and it
> makes us feel good when the closest resemblence to the marque (Rover)
> helps us out. Ah well.
>
> I say we burn some "pirate" CDs for MG owners and make the distribution
> free of charge, so as not to get into selling them. Just asking for a
> contribution for the cost of burning the CDs and distributing them with
> the parts on the CD. Let's get a list together of people who have this
> data and get cookin'! Anyone have a CD burner? (For those of you who
> don't know, "burning CDs" is the term used to create Compact Discs, not
> destroy them.)
>
> I have homework to do. Sometimes I wish I had graduated before I bought
> my midget. It's killing me not having it work. I dream about driving
> it now. Last night I had a lucid dream about it (you know you're
> dreaming while in your dream) and I had a great time. I knew it wasn't
> real, but boy was it fun driving the little guy around campus.
> Everybody cheering me on... it was fantastic! But you have to wake up
> sometime.
>
> eric
>
> --
> Eric C. Mumford <=> mumford@rpi.edu
> http://travolta.stu.rpi.edu -or- http://www.rpi.edu/~mumford
>
> __.o,\____ "Keep 'em on the road!"
> /__ \ / _ ) 1979 MG Midget
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