Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:08:03 -0700 From: Chris Doherty To: david.berlind@cnet.com Subject: your, uh, "article" on bundling IE, at http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2811512,00.html Sir. You are an idiot. A moron of the highest caliber. A high prince among fools. An incompetent jackass who, given a respected pulpit with which to educate his audience, proceeds to drop his pants, stick his thumb up his ass, and masturbate onto the people in the front row. The sheer scope of your feeble intellect has been painfully enumerated by the Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/21712.html), but I feel compelled to emphasize to you directly exactly how little you really know about the technical issues you wrote about, and the level of your inability with the English language. I accept that perhaps you wrote under a tight deadline, and ingested substances to help you through it. I accept the possibility that it was four AM, the article was due at six, and you mainlined Drano to help you focus. Which of us hasn't had to huff spraypaint now and again to make it through the day? If you spent the next ten years killing brain cells, and wrote another article, I'm not sure anyone would notice the difference. The appalling lack of research, dearth of basic knowledge, and English usage on a par with our beleaguered and developmentally disabled President, all indicate that you should lay down your pen for the good of the periodical industry. The world has many careers available for a half-wit ignoramus such as yourself: low-level janitorial work, convenience store cashier, project manager. Please, sir, in the future spare us your cretinous ramblings; if you feel the urge, please remove half of John Dvorak's brain and have him write the article, and it will be an improvement--substituting one poltroon for another is an imperfect solution, but life involves compromise. Cheers, Chris Doherty ------------------------------- Chris Doherty torque [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry." -- A. A. Milne -------------------------------