Try actually reading the thread. There were comments and criticisms of me being made before I even had a chance to reply and the major complaintant admitted being to lazy to hunt down the quote for context. My only error was assuming the most folks would have some familiarity with the thread and poster mentioned in the OP. Give it a rest and let it drop.
Forget Sam Stone, ITR champion is the one cleaning [del]rodney dangerfield[/del] jrodefeld’s clock!
You should be fine as long as you never contract “natural causes”.
No. Their respective nuttiness isn’t opposite, but the same. Assuming a Tuvix-style transporter accident, you can rest assured that Olendfeld would be a huge nut, just about some other weird topic.
How embarrassing!
The belief that you can be a titan of health who’s immune to infectious disease (as long as you stay away from toxic Pharma concoctions like vaccines) is the subject of a revealing article on sciencebasedmedicine.org:
“…there is definitely a strain of magical thinking in alt-med, namely that of complete empowerment. That concept makes itself known in germ theory denialism, as I discussed previously, in which it is believed that, if you just eat the right foods, take the right supplements, and keep yourself “healthy” enough through exercise, infectious disease cannot strike you down.”
Similarly, if we’d only empower ourselves with Libertarian principles (and Austrian economics), there’d be a fabulous renaissance. The problems we have now (or thought we’d mitigated by government-led reforms) simply wouldn’t exist.
You can’t argue with magic.
I’m starting to wonder is Tom just has a macro for warning jro he hit’s every few pages. That dude can’t help collecting warnings. Maybe he considers them badges of honor.
No, I did not.
No, that was not your only error.
The fucking thread was 14 fucking pages long, you moron. Quit defending your stupid post. You were wrong. You need to remember the first rule of holes.
A hole in one is a hole forever?
Two holes don’t make a hollow?
???
I can secretly affirm that tom has such a device. It’s set to buzz when the terms “fucking” and “ignorant jack off” are bandied about in Great Debates. It even catches other posters.
Yes, you did. See below.
Oh, what else did I get wrong? Go ahead. Make a list.
Q.E.D. There is a thread search function. You could not be bothered. You found it easier to make snotty remarks.
Really? Then you agree with jro’s comments then?
I was wrong to not fully quote the extra sentences for the benefit of those coming into the thread without even a basic idea of where the thread target was coming from via the links and comments in the first sentence of the OP. No more.
I think he means stop digging.
Give that man a medal. If the thread runs onto 4+ pages, take it back
How many warnings is someone allowed before the axe falls?
I sense another warning headed jrod’s way.
Considering he’s already been warned at least twice (in increasingly angry tones) for the exact same violation, I wouldn’t be surprised if the camel’s back breaks this time.
Looks like suicide by mod to me.
I was glad when tom didn’t warn him when he last insulted me, but it was the briefest of reprieves. He’s tired of this, but his three-year-old ego won’t let him walk away of his own volition. He needs a little push to save face. I reckon he’ll get his wish granted quite soon.
Shame. I’d prefer if we saw a new three post OP every few months that could remind people what a fucking terrible idea the gold standard is, without my having to put any work into it.
What is it with cranks and there desperate need to see inside Fort Knox? The damn thing isn’t even part of our economy much any more, so what do they expect to see, gnomes?
Damn you. Have you no respect for the cinematic merit of Goldfinger? At long last, have you no sense of decency, sir?
The thing I found strange was when I drove through Fort Knox in 1997 and couldn’t even find a postcard that related to the depository. I ended up mailing one with a picture of a tank on it. For all the romance and intrigue about the bullion depository in fiction, as far as I could tell it was just a mildly-interesting-looking government warehouse set back ~1000 feet from a really high chain-link fence.