(Bobo)

[snup]
I sometimes have to shake my head and scream at all this nonsense in
the USA about blaming someone else for their own stupidty. I read
somewhere that in Mexico, when you step in a hole, they call you
"stupid." In the USA, they call you a "millionaire." The personal
injury scam fueled by crooked attorneys in this country has just run
amuck.
[snip]

This well-known crank is not from the USA [1]. He brought r.b.p to
its current low level [2] by his remorseless spamming [3] before
complaints to abuse@his_ISP brought him down. No-one who has ever
heard of him would ever consider wasting money on a book by this
semi-literate nutcase.

[1] He is a Canadian, originally from England.

[2] There used to be many, many more active, knowlegable participants
in r.b.p.

[3] He would paste his stock diatribe as a reply to nearly every
message posted.

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-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty

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rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net 1-301-775-0471
Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll.
rhople[at]wfubmc[dot]edu 1-336-713-5077
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Sadly, however, this is the type of publishing crap that the media will tend
to grab and run with. Soon, you will be hearing the media print and say
that, "the kayaker was not using sponsons," the same way we hear, "the
cyclist was not wearing a helmet." These types of things gather momentum and
often are not anlayzed to determine whether the safety device would have had
any mitigating effect whatsoever. For example, a cyclist was killed a while
back in San Jose by a truck that passed the rider at speed (I won't go into
the details, but it is a well documented event). The cyclist died from a
variety of injuries, any of which were likely fatal. The news article cited
his lack of helmet as though it could possibly save one from injuries
incurred from being hit by a 20 ton gravel truck moving a 50+ mph.

Sigh. Tim was simply annoying and useless, now he's dangerous and useless.

Rick


"Oci-One Kanubi" wrote in message
om...
(Bobo)

[snup]
I sometimes have to shake my head and scream at all this nonsense in
the USA about blaming someone else for their own stupidty. I read
somewhere that in Mexico, when you step in a hole, they call you
"stupid." In the USA, they call you a "millionaire." The personal
injury scam fueled by crooked attorneys in this country has just run
amuck.
[snip]

This well-known crank is not from the USA [1]. He brought r.b.p to
its current low level [2] by his remorseless spamming [3] before
complaints to abuse@his_ISP brought him down. No-one who has ever
heard of him would ever consider wasting money on a book by this
semi-literate nutcase.

[1] He is a Canadian, originally from England.

[2] There used to be many, many more active, knowlegable participants
in r.b.p.

[3] He would paste his stock diatribe as a reply to nearly every
message posted.

--
-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty

================================================== ====================
Richard Hopley, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
rhopley[at]earthlink[dot]net 1-301-775-0471
Nothing really matters except Boats, Sex, and Rock'n'Roll.
rhople[at]wfubmc[dot]edu 1-336-713-5077
OK, OK; computer programming for scientific research also matters.
================================================== ====================

"Rick" writes:

Sadly, however, this is the type of publishing crap that the media will tend
to grab and run with. Soon, you will be hearing the media print and say
that, "the kayaker was not using sponsons," the same way we hear, "the
cyclist was not wearing a helmet."

I doubt this very much. Biking is a popular sport, one that most
people do at some point in their lives. In contrast, most members
of the media and the general public barely know what a kayak is,
much less a sponson. To think that general awareness of sponsons
could ever approach that of bike helmets is, well, bordering on the
absurd.

I will be beyond astonished if this book has a real publisher.
Commercial publishers are interested in making money, and even if an
editor were to believe every word Sponsonboy said, their business
instincts would kick in before they spent any hard cash on such a
project. Specifically, they'd probably spend, oh, at least a couple
of minutes researching these "thousands of deaths", which haven't
exactly been making front-page news. This research would quickly
reveal two facts: 1)that the phrase "thousands of deaths" is an
exaggeration of at least an order of magnitude, even if you added up
all whitewater deaths over several decades, and 2)that the lack of
sponsons had fsck-all to do with any of 'em.

Nope, a real publisher won't spend a dime on this turkey. OTOH,
there are "publishers" who will be more than happy to take your
money to "publish" your unacknowledged and unappreciated work of
genuine original genius. So you can spend a chunk of our own change
and end up with a stack of _real published books_, which you can
then try and sell to anyone who gives a damn, or give away to your
friends, or use to start a fire in your woodstove, or whatever. It
all reminds me of that bit in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" when
Hunter S. Thompson becomes alarmed at the idea that any lunatic with
$3.98 to spend can have his/her image appear on a giant display over
downtown Las Vegas, with a very large sound system broadcasting
his/her message to the world. There are a lot of messages out
there, though, so in considering which ones are worthy of your time,
it's good to look at whether the access to the medium was
legitimately earned through the merit of the message, or simply
bought.

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Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield,
Other days you're the bug.