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Well said
I second the motion
Lonnie Lepp
tllepp@xxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lionel Issen
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 1:03 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Ton Maas Slander
>From time to time, there are a few cranky unpleasant people on this
listserver. When they persist even after other subscribers try to
remonstrate with them, the best solution is to completely ignore them. It is
frustrating for an actor to perform to an empty theater.
Like other listservers I use, almost all of the subscribers are very helpful
and cooperative. I would hate to see anyone leave because of unwarranted
criticism.
A few years ago IEEE published a biography of Oliver Heaviside. The
Heaviside layer is named after him. Heaviside was a self taught mathematical
genius. He discovered/invented operational calculus. He made many
discoveries that had to be rediscovered by others, including one that
Feynman got the Nobel prize for. Until I read this biography I couldn't
understand why his peers virtually blacklisted him. It turns out that he was
a misogynist, he didn't like dealing with people. When a someone asked him
if he could elaborate on the formulas, in a paper he wrote, so that a
working engineer could understand and apply them, he answered "the equations
speak for themselves" (he was worse than some of my college profs). Prior to
WWI, the British Postmaster General was the hitech dispenser of research
grants as NASA is today. (The Br Postoffice ran the telegraph and telephone
systems and for that period were very hitech). Heaviside went out of his way
to publicly antagonize the Postmaster General. He also went out of his way
to antagonize those he could/should have had as allies. Instead of being
acclaimed and knighted by the King/Queen, he died in obscurity.
I guess the point that I am trying to make is that we should be a bit
gentle with our criticisms and stick to the facts, and not get
nasty-personal. Bees gather around honey, not around vinegar.
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
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