ok, jim, it's getting late, time to fish or cut bait...

no more stonewalling with silence.

i've given you ample opportunity to weigh in with
your opinions on several issues here, but you have
_failed_  to take advantage of that opportunity, so
the time for waiting has come to an end, my friend.

i made all the changes you asked for on the .html...
you have one last chance today to change anything.
if you don't, i will consider that you have _approved_
the .html as it now exists, and i'll go forward with it.

you also have one last chance to analyze the .mobi,
.epub, and .pdf files that i created, and to suggest
anything _unique_ to them (i.e., _not_ in the .html)
which you would like to see changed.  last chance...

i will still make some final objections to your stance
that project gutenberg should be using .html as its
"master-format", ones which tie everything together,
but if you have any counterarguments to positions
that i've laid out thus far, you must make them now.

otherwise, i will assume that you have none, and i will
use that as an additional argument against your stance.

***

and henceforth, if you ever make this silly suggestion,
people can be referred back to these recent threads in
the archives just by pointing, to see you have no game.
bluster and bull crap is just about all you have to offer.

***

but, i must say, jim, you did achieve one "honor" here.

in this thread, you have managed to attain criticism
from me, and from marcello, and from david starner.

considering the fact each one of the three of us hates
the others -- "hate" is a strong word, and it certainly
can't apply to someone you wouldn't even recognize
on the street, but we'll let that technicality pass here
-- getting all three of us to agree that you are wrong,
well, that constitutes a major achievement, to be sure.

you are either _brilliant_, jim, in a way comparable to
the sun on a cloudless day, or else you're just _wrong_.
and i am positive it is completely safe to say you are
not brilliant.  still, that's quite an "achievement", to be
_so_ wrong that you created _this_ unity of detractors.

perhaps you should direct your efforts at a "solution"
for the middle east...  what's the worst you could do?

-bowerbird