I find myself not sure why I am responding to you. I will make this statement and be done with this conversation. My statement was not made as a "personal" attack, because I don't know you. My statement about mathematics was to make a comparison. Not to mention that Wayne was the absolute best mathematics professor I ever had - a brilliant mind. I don't think it is cool ANYTIME someone is called names and "petty" little things like punctuation or spelling are pointed out in this forum. <br><br>The usefullness of this forum for the VAST majority of people who "lurk" it (400 plus) is to glean information and ideas and the discussion of ideologies and philosophies. When it evolves to the point of name calling and being petty, it has gone too far and perhaps uncivilized. <br><br>That being said, I just read where someone referred to you as "ferrett". For the record, I don't think that is cool either.<br><br>Mr. Ivie, sounds too formal, please
call me Tom.<br><br><b><i>heirdoug@netscape.net</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Mr. Ivie,<br><br>Why do you say, “NOT cool!”?<br><br>Have I said something that you seem to disagree with? Have I offended <br>your sensibility?<br><br>And yes I can discuss the infinitude of primes, parallel postulate and <br>the Pythagorean Theorem. (Theorem should be capitalized by the way.) <br>But like you say, most of us care less.<br><br>Why do you think Mr. Fox cares what I do for a living? (Or as the case <br>may be, not do at the present.) He and Tom-Tom mention it every chance <br>that they get. Do they have some sort of “wire size” envy?<br><br>I’m curious as to the name of your dog in this dance. Are you a <br>government worker bee, too?<br><br>Doug<br>"Sauce is warfare!"<br><br>ps: Wayne, I'm sorry for leaving out the semi-colon. And your apology <br>is
accepted.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>NOT cool!<br><br>Could you explain the infinitude of Primes, the independence of the <br>parallel postulate, or the Pythagorean theorem? Or that there are also <br>many unimportant theorems such as the fact that in any rectangle <br>dissected into smaller rectangles, if each smaller rectangle has <br>integer width or height, so does the large one? I am pretty sure Wayne <br>can. In fact, I would put good money on it. But he doesn't throw that <br>in your face. Why? Because he knows none of us could care less. Much <br>like the difference between s, 's, s', and ss's.<br>________________________________________________________________________<br>Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and <br>industry-leading spam and email virus protection.<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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