On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:56:12 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:37:15 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:


John Fields wrote:

Knowing why he responded the way he did, had you then replied that you
meant him no slight with your first post, a lot of ugliness might have
been averted.

You insult somebody's college, then he insults your wife, and then you're
supposed to explain you didn't mean it? You can't be serious.

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Sure, why not?

Larkin said he was only fooling around, so if Jim took it wrong and
flamed back hard, Larkin could easily have defused the situation - at
very little cost to himself - by explaining that he was only fooling
around.

I wasn't fooling around. I was commenting on the huge numbers of
press-release scientific-breakthrough cures-cancer types of idiotic
press releases that MIT generates. That never amount to anything.

This sort of thing, over and over:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...n-every-gadget



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Highland Technology, Inc

jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com
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