--- On Fri, 7/23/10, Jim Fernandes <amigo...@att.net> wrote:
>
> Let me repeat this once again, I have set you in my cross-wires as the >next
> target. You are messing with the wrong guy.
>
So what else is new? Instead of logic and reason, we have another instance of
the same senseless verbal exercise of compensation for impotence from Shri
Fernandes – another empty public threat and more hot air. We used to call them
pokio fotaxio in Chimbel. But it is clear that he has been trying awfully hard
without success to do the following:
1. Make me shut up, or shut me down, as he put it.
2. Get me to stop carrying on a discussion about issues that interest me in any
Goan forum I want to.
3. Get me kicked out of Goanet.
4. Get me fired from my job.
5. Cause me to not be able to practice my profession.
6. Take the award I have received away from me, or make me give it back.
And now he is talking about cross wires and targets. Apart from being an
admission of his impotence to do anything to me so far, after all the vacuous
bravado and threatening he has already engaged in on Goanet, I am not sure what
he means by the specific words he has used, and how far this man is capable of
going. So I would like to know from him the following:
Shri Fernandes, What exactly are you threatening to do to me this time?
I will wait for him to answer this question. But at this point one thing is
clear from all this. There is nothing logical, rational or sensible about this
man’s behavior that we are witnessing. To me another thing that is clear is
that this is an exercise that will only end in disappointment for him, unless
he relents.
He will not be able to do any of the things I have listed above that he wants
to do to me. He can rant and rave, huff and puff and blow as much steam as he
has in him till the cows come home on Goanet. He is absolutely powerless as far
as doing anything to me or anybody else. He may delude himself that he is the
wrong guy to mess with. But the truth is that he is simply wrong.
Now let me address the atrocious points and questions he has raised below:
>
> I disagreed with that assertion, which is when you decided to forward my
> >response to your own little private list. The members of this list, then
> >went on to SPAM me endlessly.
>
This is another of Fernandes’ bogus self-aggrandizing delusions. Fernandes
appears to have been born yesterday. The truth is I have been discussing this
issue with, and copying my responses to, people on the other Goan mailing list
long before he entered this discussion on Goanet. In the thread in question my
first response copied to that mailing list was to Adv. Radharao Gracias’
article posted on Goanet and GX by Floriano. The present response will also be
copied there, regardless of what Fernandes or anybody else thinks. In a free
democracy each individual has a fundamental right to express his/her opinion
wherever he/she wants, and in however many forums he/she wants. Nobody can do
anything about it.
>
> Now that you admit that you got dole from the US federal government >agency
> (National Science Foundation) to run your little birdie >experiment, I'd like
> to request you to return the grant back to the >agency.
>
The above statement reveals that Fernandes quite obviously does not value
scientific advancement supported by highly competitive and coveted public
funding obtained through sheer hard work and intellectual rigor. Had it not
been for public funding of scientific research and institutions like the
National Science Foundation, Fernandes would not have a computer or an internet
or the “complex” mathematics that keeps him employed rather than spend his time
threatening, bloviating and abusing others.
>
> If India is so great, what are you doing here in the US?
>
As I have already said in response to Adv. Gracias, the U.S. is the best place
in the world to do the kind of research that I am doing. The fact that U.S. is
greater than India in my field does not mean India is not great. I have already
pointed out why India is greater than many European, North and South American
and Asian countries, such as Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Australia, South Korea,
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, Indonesia, etc., in terms of Nobel
Prizes awarded for work done in the same country.
>
> Why are you using my money (my taxpayer money) to further your knowledge?
>
Another emission from the depths of ignorance! I am using my taxpayer money, my
skills, my mind and my blood and sweat to advance scientific knowledge for the
benefit of all humankind, so one day when Fernandes and/or his descendants need
the best treatment for some brain disorder they will have the chance to get it.
>
> Why don't you go back to India and beg with the Indian government for >the
> grant?
>
Either Fernandes believes he did not beg with some employer to obtain the
computer job he is doing, and his employer did not beg for a government/private
contract, or he has nothing but selective contempt for people who obtain
through intellectual competition coveted public funding for education and
knowledge creation that does public good and advances the human civilization.
It is also highly likely that someone’s donations and taxpayer money supported
Fernandes’ education in the U.S. and India. So if anybody should return public
money it is Fernandes who should do it, because unlike me, he is not rendering
non-profit public service and he is ungrateful for the charity that was offered
to him by the taxpayers and/or donors.
I have already stated above and earlier in response to Adv. Gracias why I chose
to come to America. I also said that one legitimate criticism I have against
India is the lack of funding, resources and commitment for research and growth
of higher institutions of learning, on the part of the government and private
sector, as well as a dearth of philanthropy.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Fri, 7/23/10, Jim Fernandes <amigo...@att.net> wrote:
>
> Dear GoaNetters,
>
> I am glad to report to you all that I took out one target
> this morning. This target had been bothering me on an
> external list for some time. I had been requesting these
> people to remove me from their list for weeks, but they
> wouldn't. After the action I took earlier today, I have been
> given to understand that I would not be bothered again.
>
> Good job. I appreciate that.
>
> I'd like to state once again, that a debate that starts on
> GoaNet (at least where my response is concerned) would stay
> on GoaNet. Do not ever try to drag me elsewhere - my
> retaliation when I respond back, would be catastrophic.
>
> Now, coming to Senhor Helekar, I am not about done with you
> just yet. We have finally come full circle :)
>
> The initial debate on GoaNet started with the thread
> wherein you claimed how great India is and how great
> scientific material India has contributed to the rest of the
> world. I disagreed with that assertion, which is when you
> decided to forward my response to your own little private
> list. The members of this list, then went on to SPAM me
> endlessly.
>
> Now that you admit that you got dole from the US federal
> government agency (National Science Foundation) to run your
> little birdie experiment, I'd like to request you to return
> the grant back to the agency.
>
> If India is so great, what are you doing here in the US?
> Why are you using my money (my taxpayer money) to further
> your knowledge? Why don't you go back to India and beg with
> the Indian government for the grant?
>
> Let me repeat this once again, I have set you in my
> cross-wires as the next target. You are messing with the
> wrong guy.
>
> Jim F
>
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