Re: "But if it saves just one child."

At 1:52 AM 9/18/96, "" <pstira@escape.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, attila wrote:
>
>> = .The rallying cry heard so often these days: "But if it saves just one
>>child."
>> = .
>
>
>ACCKKKKKIK.
>
>SYN
>ACK
>GAK
>BLAH.
>
>Read some Ayn Rand.
>This must end.
>
>IOW:  I call bullshit.  I call total bullshit.
>The net, fomerly my oasis, needs death.

Millie,

First, Attila was quoting my comment. Second, this was sarcasm.

(Or, variously, facetiousness, tongue-in-cheek, and other varieties of irony.)

You really need to learn when someone is _supporting_ your point of view
through such uses of irony, rather than going ballistic, Just a Modest
Proposal, as it were, he said Swiftly.

--Tim May

We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

Timmy boy,
I yelled at someone for this last week.
And you supported my view.

Never read Ayn Rand, eh?

-Millie
two sides, both sarcastic ==> chaos

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> At 1:52 AM 9/18/96, "" <pstira@escape.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, attila wrote:
> >
> >> = .The rallying cry heard so often these days: "But if it saves just one
> >>child."
> >> = .
> >
> >
> >ACCKKKKKIK.
> >
> >SYN
> >ACK
> >GAK
> >BLAH.
> >
> >Read some Ayn Rand.
> >This must end.
> >
> >IOW:  I call bullshit.  I call total bullshit.
> >The net, fomerly my oasis, needs death.
> 
> Millie,
> 
> First, Attila was quoting my comment. Second, this was sarcasm.
> 
> (Or, variously, facetiousness, tongue-in-cheek, and other varieties of irony.)
> 
> You really need to learn when someone is _supporting_ your point of view
> through such uses of irony, rather than going ballistic, Just a Modest
> Proposal, as it were, he said Swiftly.
> 
> --Tim May
> 
> We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
> ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
> Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
> tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
> W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
> Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments.
> "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
> 
> 
> 
> 
>