sgmunson (8/18/2013)
Fly in my cereal ? Nope... just a statement of fact. I got a whole bunch of e-mails indicating updates to this topic, and so far, not one person; except you and your fly in my cereal comment; has done anything BUT repeat stuff said a long time ago, with nothing more than the use of a slightly different set of words. If you're going to complain that someone is pointing that out, then tough noogies... deal with it. I don't need a fly in my cereal to point out the fact that no one seems to want to recognize that they're just re-hashing old material. I may be wrong, but haven't you made a similar point in the past (not necessarily in this thread) ?
So you would rather make a somewhat pointless comment which wastes time for the rest of the world than take the trouble to unsubscribe from a topic in which you have no further interest? Presumably you haven't noticed that the editorial which started this topic 4 years and 11 months ago was republished 2 days ago in the daily SSC newsletter and is the SSC Editorial for 16 Aug 2013? Or think it unreasonable to republish this editorial, despite its addressing an issue which is as important today as it was five years ago? Perhaps you didn't realise that republishing it like that effectively solicits comment form those who 'didn't comment before, whether because they didn't see the editorial way back when of for some other reason?
There's an attitude which is too common in this world, which goes something like "If it inconveniences me because I can't be bothered to take the almost effortless action which makes it have no effect on me it then it shouldn't be allowed to happen no matter how much its happening may benefit other people"; I don't like that attitude; your posts here in the last two days seem to be displaying that attitude, but as Jeff referred you to you as "a frustrated friend" and I trust his judgement I guess that those posts are giving the wrong impression. Maybe you should try harder not to post stuff which will give us a misleading impression of your attitude?
Tom