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Petition to reinstate John Petersen (JVP)
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01/02/2008 12:26:47
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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01/02/2008 12:23:21
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Politics
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>>>>>>Can you indicate whether or not new fox_versus_net wars can be expected?
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>>>>For all the downright rude things John said, I suspect the thing that hacked people off the most was forecasting the decline of VFP before they were ready to hear it.
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>>>For me, it wasn't the prediction of Fox's demise, it was the 'anyone who hasn't jumped off this sinking ship is a complete idiot' attitude that would swiftly come to the fore. Actually, now that I think back on it, it was the 'anyone who doesn't agree with me completely is a total idiot and deserves any scorn that I might heap upon them' attitude that would raise its ugly head along with the other.
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>>How about the "anyone who switches the bleeding edge technology is an idiot" attitude. It went both ways.
>
>Which kinda boils down to a "everyone else is a complete idiot but me", doesn't it?
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>I'll admit that I have an ego that requires its own chair, but sometimes you just have to admit that you're wr...... wr...... not completely right sometimes (big grin) or at least agree to disagree, but as far as I could tell (please note the qualifier - for I don't claim to have read EVERY response that JVP made), he never has.

Well, obviously I'm the only one that isn't a complete idiot, but that's beside the point. ;-)

Not try to flame, but what specifically was he wrong about?
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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