[X4U] Miscellaneous Dashboard Question

[Nick Scalise]

On Jun 24, 2006, at 9:00 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 24 Jun 2006, at 05:29, Nick Scalise wrote:
>>
>> I am posting to this public list, because you seem to have no  
>> honor and others need to see that. Though I suspect most on this  
>> list already know it.
>>
>> I am offended that you would call me an idiot to members of  
>> another list, and lie about what I said. I never apologized. I  
>> admitted that I did not see what you had quoted earlier.
>>
>> You can continue to assasinate my character as you wish, but  
>> sooner or later you will use up any good will you have managed to  
>> maintain.
>>
>> I will not see any of your replies.
>
> Randy has done this before, vehemently arguing that:
>   "to use every bit of available memory, ... is the sign of a well  
> written application."
>        (10 September 2004 19:25:45 BST)
> and eventually later retracting this statement whilst still  
> maintaining what an asshole I am.
>
> Until I came to review his posts (if your list archive goes back  
> that far do a Spotlight for "From: randy" and "entire message  
> contains: memory", otherwise look at the list's archive on the web)  
> I had forgotten _quite_ how obnoxious & rude he was. I felt that in  
> the original instance I pointed out his mistake quite gently, and  
> he would have been able to retract it without embarassment but he  
> rapidly became quite insulting.
>
> Even when corrected by other knowledgeable users he refused to  
> apologise and said that "that wasn't what I originally meant", even  
> though he had reinforced & clarified that position with a second  
> posting.
>
> Randy appears to me to be knowledgeable on many practical aspects  
> of using a Mac, and because of the way he promotes this and his  
> authorship of a best-selling Mac book some years ago, causes me to  
> wonder if your statement "most on this list already know it" is  
> true. Nevertheless he is back to his old tricks, and he seems to  
> have revealed his character quite tellingly following your posting.

I had *not* forgotten how he had become that last time and was  
assuming that others did not either.

You are probably correct that my statement "most on this list already  
know it" may have not been true at the time of my posting.

I hope my statement is true now.
--
Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net