BIKE: Re: Rail Issues (2)

[Michael Bluejay]

On Oct 29, 2004, at 11:45 PM, Nawdry wrote:

> Well, here I go again.  I had always suspected Michael to be sort of 
> cognitively deaf, but to make a virtue out of it is rather astounding. 
>  This pathetic revelation does help explain why he keeps inventing 
> positions for me and fabricating quotations and viewpoints I have 
> never made or held.  (One might think that, if ever there were an 
> appropriate candidate target for one of Patrick Goetz's extended 
> passionate orations on open-mindedness, it would be Michael this time, 
> instead of me, but somehow I don't expect that in this case.)

I never thought I'd say this in a post, but since my cognitive 
abilities are under attack, let me mention that I went to the state 
finals in debate and my last tested IQ was 142.  I think I understand 
your one-note message just fine.  As far as "inventing" positions for 
you, what I take issue with is your pouncing on the early problems with 
the brand-new LV monorail as evidence that the technology is unsound.  
I'm not "inventing" that, you've repeated it ad nauseum, including in 
that very post where you claim I'm inventing positions for you.  Here, 
read your own excerpted post:

> The shutdown of the Las Vegas monorail does seem to point to some 
> critical drawbacks of the technology, or to some extent, at least, the 
> current design of monorail projects.

I didn't make it up, you said it.  There it is.  Read it again.

My feeling, as always, is that it's still too early to pass judgement 
on the LV monorail -- and *certainly* way to early to finger the fact 
that it's an automated monorail as evidence that shows how unworkable 
such a system is.

If you stop pouncing on these early system problems with the LV 
monorail as evidence of its inferiority then I'll stop pointing out 
that you're doing so.

-MBJ-