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"Bob Weinberger" wrote in message
news:PButg.16834$Wh7.7743@trnddc07...

"Joe" wrote in message
.net...
snip
...explain why I
posted the unemployment figures for the "hightech"
west coast vs North Carolina.
snip

Well, just to poke the bear and keep this highly entertaining dust-up
alive (aka stirring the ****)

Gilding the lily, as it were, but it can't hurt anything.

I'll point out that North Carolina's Research Triangle is every bit as
much a "hightech mecca" as California's Silicon Valley or Oregon's Silicon
Forest or Washington's whatever cutsie tech nickname they use for the
Micro$oft HQ area. In each case those areas make up only a small portion
of their respective states, are not the driving force of the state's
economy, and do not make up anything approaching a majority of the
workforce in their states.

Well, I know that is true with regard to California, and I'm willing to take
it on faith that you're right about the others.

So a strong case can be made that the west coast is not materially more
"hightech" than North Carolina.

Well, it's an interesting observation but it's going to take more than what
you've given us so far to make it a strong case.

In any case, we now have a start in addressing one of Mark's supporting
arguments......but it falls far short negating the point he was trying to
bolster.

Wolfgang

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:45:54 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Bob Weinberger wrote:

Well, just to poke the bear and keep this highly entertaining dust-up alive
...

Sadist.

And you forgot Chambana's own "Silicon Prairie", the high-tech
mecca of the midwest.

And speaking of poking, er, Da Bears...er, Ken, getting inside toilets
at a couple of pork processing plants does not a high-tech mecca
make...are you sure you don't mean "Silicone Prairie?"

TC,
R

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"Bob Weinberger" wrote in message
news:PButg.16834$Wh7.7743@trnddc07...
Well, just to poke the bear and keep this highly entertaining dust-up
alive (aka stirring the ****) I'll point out that North Carolina's
Research Triangle is every bit as much a "hightech mecca" as California's
Silicon Valley or Oregon's Silicon Forest or Washington's whatever cutsie
tech nickname they use for the Micro$oft HQ area. In each case those
areas make up only a small portion of their respective states, are not the
driving force of the state's economy, and do not make up anything
approaching a majority of the workforce in their states. So a strong case
can be made that the west coast is not materially more "hightech" than
North Carolina.

Bob Weinberger

I don't think that anyone has questioned whether the West coast is any more
hi-tech than any other region of the country, YET?

Yes, many states have hi-tech sectors, but as I pointed out *very early* in
this thread (I believe that I actually pointed it out twice: once in my
original post and then again when Joey posted his stats for California and
some other states), I specifically noted the unemployment rate in CALDWELL
COUNTY, NC and not any other part of the state of NC, the entire state of
NC, nor the rest of the nation.

I'd be willin' to give in to the belief that 'ol Joey is incapable of
writing a coherent sentence--which I truly believe anyway--, and that he
very well might have meant what Jon has suggested that he meant, except that
he never said he meant something different from what was accepted by myself,
Wolfgang, Cyli, Bob, and Charlie, once Charlie called him on his arrant
statement--twice!

Op

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"Mr. Opus McDopus" wrote in message
...

MY BAD

*errant* statement--twice!

Op

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"Joe" wrote in message
.net...

Looks like you folks had quite a day today. Unfortunately I can't
access these lists at work so can't join in the fun until the evening.

So you've sobered up too?

Jon and Ken both have it 100% correct.

About what?

Joe's meaning (as claimed in his other post):

[your bogus claim] [of living in a high-tech mecca]

Your interpretation:

[your bogus claim of living in] [a high tech mecca]
"

You read it wrong and it appears to me that you and Wolfgang
are too proud or stupid or gutless to admit that you were
acting like asses.

Let's see, what has been said of late about name callin'.....Oh yeah, IT"S A
BAD BOY THAT RESORTS TO NAME CALLIN'!

I have no need to engage in ****ing contests with two
obviously reading challenged people who have no intention
of listening.

Which begs the question: Why did you return?

So this is my only rebuttal.

You got someone to write your rebuttal for ya?

- I did not say or mean or imply that Opie lived in a
high-tech mecca.

"Remember this started with your bogus claim of living
in a 'high-tech mecca'."

Tell ya what, I did this myself and it really works! Copy the abve
quotation to a blank sheet of paper, hand it to several people--they can be
office workers, ditch-diggers, rocket scientists or second graders, as the
answer will invariably remain the same--ask those people to read the
quotation, then ask them to tell you what it says to them. I know you won't
do this in an honest manner, as honesty is not really part of your nature,
but humor me.

- I assume that Opie knows where he lives and it makes
absolutely no sense that I would disagree with him on
where he says he lives.

No it wouldn't have, but yet you did, either because you can't read or you
can't process simply thoughts--I hope it's not a case of old-timers disease?

- If you insist that I am lying, then explain why I
posted the unemployment figures for the "hightech"
west coast vs North Carolina.

Who know why you did what you did? I posted, specifically, about CALDWELL
COUNTY, NC and made no claim other than to state that "knot (obroff) all of
us live in a Mecca of hi-tech." Even that simple statement has had you and
Ken J. flummoxed, as I wasn't implying that Ken lived in a Mecca of hi-tech,
since I haven't the slightest idea of where Ken resides. I was merely
sayin' that not all people, in general, live in an area where wages and
employment are high.

Last word of advice, and yes I'm sure you'll both have
snide little comments throughout. You might want to think
twice before calling people names over reading ability.

Great! Advice from a MORON!

I did a little google searching and you both have a history
of reading people's posts wrong. Those in glass houses
and all that.

Please, post two, just two posts, (Fawn Lake Threads don'tt count, for
obvious reasons-- that will probably escape you) *in the last two years
(7/13/2006-7/13/2004, or in any other two year stint)* where I have gotten
in an argument over someone's ability to read. Now don't come up with a
silly account of where I correct the spelling in an individual's post.

If you come up with just two VALID (I'll let anyone besides Ken J be the
arbiter) posts where I have actually questioned someone's ability to read, I
will apologize, right here on ROFF, to you, Ken and Jon, and further admit
that I am the world's biggest MORON still living!

Oh and yeah, you can try to fool yourselves all you want,
but even you know that you both ****ed up.

No, we know nothing of the sort.

Everyone else,
or at least everyone else who wasn't disgusted by all this
stupidity, knows that you two ****ed up too.

Does that include Cyli, Bob, and Charlie? Remeber, they kinda took your
post in the same way that Wolfgang and I did.

Learn how to ****in' read, you morons!!!

More nasty name callin'! Boy is your mommy gonna be ****ed!

Love,
Op

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wrote in message
...
Joey said, " I never said that you live in a high-tech mecca. I would
assume that you know where you live. "

Maybe "Joey" was still confused when he wrote that line--if he ever,
actually, wrote that line--and thought he was writing "I never said that you
didn't live in a high-tech mecca. I would assume that you don't know where
you live. "

Your interpretation makes absolutely no sense in context.

Below is a post from Joey--not the date--take note of the 5th (numbered)
line down. In light of the fact that Joey said he took the statement,
numbered 4, "Op --being right-handed, I can see that you wouldn't
understand that knot (obroff) all of us live in the Mecca of hi-tech--",
how can you CONTINUE to defend that Joey knew exactly what I said/meant?

All of this is in context with the earliest part of the thread.

What

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Tues, Jul 11 2006 9:47 am

1) I've never seen anyone both top and bottom post at the same time.

2) Listen dickhead, is that better? I don't generally like to call names,
but it seems to be all you understand.

3) The question was, what did you mean by?

4) "Op --being right-handed, I can see that you wouldn't
understand that knot (obroff) all of us live in the Mecca of hi-
tech--".

5) *I took it one way* and instead of explaining yourself you called
names. I pointed out that you still hadn't explained what
you meant and you came back calling names again. Still not
explaining what you really meant.

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You can read the entire text of Joey's post at: http://tinyurl.com/h2ofv
and follow the entire thread from there, or you can read incomprehensible
choice tidbits of Joey's like this one:

Mon, Jul 10 2006 1:56 am

"Charlie Choc" wrote in message

Where's the bogus claim?
--
Charlie...

I forgot to mention that I voted for Ralph Nader in the last election, I
guess?

Op

I don't see what difference that makes, but good for you.

**So did I. Calling out that someone is using Clintonian
wordplay to claim they didn't say what they said doesn't
make me some republican. **
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You can
fixate on one ambiguous sentence, but within the conversation it's
obvious what he meant. Why would he post employment statistics for
the west coast vs NC if he thought you were talking about yourself?

Only Allah knows, I guess?

He was clearly trying to show that the high-tech west coast had higher
unemployment than NC. You can dispute that his data shows anything,
but it's obvious what he was talking about.

To you and Jon, maybe?

You misread what was written and called names based on your mistake.

No, whether or not I misread Joey's flawed writing, I didn't call names for
that reason. I called Joey a MORON because that's what I believe him to be!

IMHO you were wrong. A real man would have apologized by now.

I contend you have done the same. So when so you plan to apologize? I want
to be here to accept you apology personaly!

Op

- Ken

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"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
...
I don't remember saying that, but if you say so, it must be true. I
believe I said something along the lines that if you did not have a
million when you were 65 that you haven't planned your life very well.

I'd say that you just described about 90% of the nations working class
people. But what would you know about the working class, right!

And, it takes no imagination for anyone to believe that your life is
pure luck,

No, luck hadn't a thing to do with it. Random events from birth to the
present date would best describe my life, so far.

bad at that,

Wrong again! I'm still alive. I'd say that's been very GOOD.

without much planning at all.

You got me there. No argument! But then I'm not an anal ****head who hopes
that folks will die a horrible death due to a war.

Let's see..... you are studying for a master's degree, correct?

No! Well not just yet. Clasess don't begin until sometime around the end
of August.

And, when you get it, will you *then* be the highest paid janitor in North
Cackelacky?

So now you have problems with folks that provide janitorial services? Are
you never pleased? I mean it's one thing to be so arrogant to think that
life is unbearable without a million bucks in one's bank account, and now
you disparage those who might clean-up after you? You truly are a patethic
fool!

How 'bout going on for a PhD in hamburgerology from
McDonalds?

I'm not certain that Mickey D would have me, but I certainly wouldn't pass
up on a job with them, if I was in need of employment, in a non-hi-tech
industy, that is.

Op --rw was right. you do try to stir up **** with each visit to
ROFF!--

Well, I sure as hell didn't start this dumbass thread, which is what
is stirring up the ****.

Stirrin' up what ****? It's as if you have never been involved in a less
than honorable thread yourself. right? My, how soon we forget about the
dumbass threads that we have been involved in, right?!

If you weren't interested in dumbass threads, then you wouldn't have
participated in a thread with the SUBJECT: For Joe, Ken J. and all
*disinterested parties*, now would you have?

Yeah, but it is so much fun seeing you spend your entire life, what
there is of it, here on roff, bitching and moaning about something
that someone said about you.

So, you got this neato machine that contacts you telepathically, to let you
know when a dumbassed thread has begun, just so that you can jump in? ****,
I gotta get me on of them machines!

Dave, you're just another moron to spank.

I bet you'd like to spank me, but I'm not into that, Mark. Try, uh,
welllll, you-know-who. I betcha he'd like it. d;o)

No Dave, I don't know "you-know-who? Maybe a homophobic old sailor can
enlighten me?

Op