Subject: Re: Allegro CL 5.0 Win32 From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/02/27 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3160677171534026@naggum.no> * Stig Hemmer <stig@epoksy.pvv.ntnu.no> | I assume that it is the absence of body language, tone of voice | etc. that causes him to "see idiots" on the Net. I must assume that you lack the ability to read tone in written text and assume that all others suffer from the same problem, and that this causes you to get ideas about how other people behave and think. which is pretty darn sad for you if you realize the long-term consequences. instead of being intelligent about this and try to figure out if you're right or at least onto something, you don your halo and present your platitudes as relevant information. the problem with you do-gooders who think like this is you have _no_ clue. it's like those lamb-and-lion notions of paradise: people who have so little understanding of how people work and what reality is like that they substitute some _really_ silly notion of "wouldn't it be nice if" for reality and go on to believe in it and wish for it and hope for it. it's actually sickening to watch. reality doesn't fit the mental imaging power of fools and do-gooders. #:Erik