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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: 10 Nov 2024 15:14:40 GMT
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On 2024-11-10, Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
> On 10/11/2024 15:45, Titus G wrote:
>> On 10/11/24 08:42, William Hyde wrote:
>>> D wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, William Hyde wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Why SF? I was there 8 years ago and found it dirty with many drug
>>>>>> users on the street.
>>>>>
>>>>> Parts of it, yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I arrived in SF from a small city with no obvious drug users or
>>>>> vagrants.
>>>>>
>>>>> This was because the local police grabbed those people, gave them a
>>>>> beating, and dumped them in the next county.  Somebody else's problem.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like heaven! Police acting, doing something, and solving the
>>>> problem! =)
>>>
>>> So you are in fact in favour of government regulation, provided it is
>>> illegal and hurts people you dislike.
>> 
>> Now that D is here, the entertainment level is surpassing the Jibini level.
>
> Nah, D's not as entertaining as Terry, he's really just a one-trick pony.
>
> Terry could come out with new lines and bounce around like a 
> grass-hopper in a BugCatcher - and probably would have baited D into an 
> apoplexy, consistency was not one of his strong points.  :-)

Very true, though I'm not sure inconsistency is the right word. I found
him quite consistent with himself, just very non-categorizable. He
certainly would poke fun at anyone he found foolish. I miss him.

Chris