Michael S. Hart wrote:
Just look at Marcello's well thought out Philippic.
Or Rothman's.
Or bowerbird, who at least argues both sides. . . .
Yerrr.... Riiight. Now I do not intend wasting time on anyone who thinks that I am in any way anyone's fan more than my own (After all, no one else specialises in being my fan, so though it does not pay well, at least it attracts very little competition. I find it downright lonely here at the top; splendid isolation I call it) and I have moderate, if tolerant, reservations on some of Michael's views, but a lot of the chunderings hurled at him remind me of a criticism of the Almighty that has had some currency in recent years: "Sure He created Heaven and Earth, but what has he done for us lately?" Right, of course! As certain comments in this thread pointed out, PG isn't ALL MH's output! Who cares for him? Some of the guys who have done yeoman work are barely acknowledged, and some of them disagree with some of his views as well! Cheeeeeze!!! I doubt that Michael takes much of that sort of input more seriously than I do, but they do leave me wondering why some of those guys stick around. It is not so much a question of who is "right" or "wrong", but of personal attitude. They seem to me so much at right angles to the spirit and much of the intent of PG (and largely of each other as well). And they are pretty ineffectual too. I haven't seen a great deal of change in PG's overall structure develop out of their niggles. Nor in any other human initiatives' structures either. Oh well, fortunately I can delete their whingeings and snappings faster than they can write them. Now look at me, for example. I don't waste time on trivialities like trying to change PG; I concentrate on important things like calendar digitisation. So far no one has been listening to me, but just wait till I get the Earth's orbit properly synchronised! THEN they will be sorry, ALL of them! They have to adopt my new calendar for certain!!! (And so far everyone has thought that climate change was all AGW! Heee heee!) Merry Barmitzva or eid, or Xmiss, or whatever it might be, Jon