Dear Greg Birky,
The only time I know of somebody called something stupid it was me and about Dom Amato's discriminating view of immigrants. I was upset and as I said, I do not normally use this word. I stand for my opinion and if you want hear that word again, just express a similar view that contains racism or other discrimination and I will repeat it. Judging your balanced posting, I think it will be hard for you to do. Education and ignorance have nothing to do with discrimination, on the contrary, it is often something that you hear from people that regard themselves as educated and superior. I think that you are right, you came in at an atypical time, a very unique situation in the normal discussions on the board. Hakan At 03:58 PM 2/27/2003 +0000, you wrote: >I am an engineer at a major manufacturer of heavy duty diesel >engines. I went looking for, and found this discussion board because >I have something of a professional as well as personal interest in >biodiesel in particular. Perhaps I came upon this discussion board at >an atypical time, but I have to say that I am a bit disappointed that >so many of the recent posts have been more or less exclusively >political in nature. Now I realize that biofuels is something of a >political subject, but I also am a member of a number of other >discussion boards, and by and large the discussions there even when >in disagreement tend to stay a bit more respectful. I understand >individuals' desire here to educate others on political topics >related to biofuels, but nobody likes to be told they are stupid, or >their comments are stupid - perhaps ignorant and uneducated, but not >stupid. > >I don't like sifting through all of these messages online since Yahoo >is slow and interjects advertisements. I also cannot afford to be e- >mailed all of them due to my e-mail system limitations. In the end, >it is just too burdensome to find relevant information on this board >right now. > >I have to say that I am politically a conservative MOSTLY. I don't >agree with all of the current administrations views. There was a >great deal more I didn't agree with in the previous administration. >However, I would never presume to believe that Mr. Clinton was >stupid, or drank too much diet soda as some here would have us >believe of President Bush. Perhaps that comment was tongue-in-cheek, >I don't know as its hard to tell when just reading the text. > >Anyway, this post is already too long so I'll wrap it up. I'd like to >see more relevant discussions of biofuels here. But I'm new, and if >this is the way the majority wants the board to go - then who am I to >think it should be different. I think that there is no need to offend >others or be offended. You all do as you like, but I doubt I'll be >around this board much. > >Greg > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> New Yahoo! Mail Plus. More flexibility. More control. More power. Get POP access, more storage, more filters, and more. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Hcb0iA/P.iFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
