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It's quite interesting you seem to think that OM needs to modify his
behavior. Perhaps his response could have been more diplomatic (imagine
that, a trader who lacks diplomacy once in awhile...), but personally I find
the "whine and accuse without doing your homework " behavior that prompted
his response to be offensive and the behavior that needs to be modified.
I haven't found that character trait to be very conducive to trading (or any
other endeavor). And those on the List that actually place trades know the
markets make OM look like a bleeding-heart liberal, so if you're that easily
offended and/or that quick to point the finger, perhaps trading isn't for
you.
Bobh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Pope" <gene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <the_omega_man@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Limit order works correctly in TS2K
>
> Hi OM!
>
> It's so hard in an email to "sound" a reasonable tone... every word is
taken
> so literally! Plus you cannot see the expression on my face... but I'll
> try...
>
> I "think", I may be wrong here, but I believe I had a discussion in a
> similar vein with a Sysop once (on another board) a while back, in which
he
> took a couple of us to task for a "slight" bending of the non-offensive
> language rule...
>
> The problem was not in the message he delivered, but how it was delivered.
> He treated us like children, not like grown men with our own children and
> grandchildren, and THAT is what was inflamatory, and indeed insulting.
>
> In the case of Omega, IMHO, I do not think that there are a bunch of
> unbelievable "numnuts" pervading this group. If that is true, then why
does
> anybody else waste their time here... to pick on Newbies? Haven't you ever
> been a newbie? Have you ever felt the "sting" of a cliquey group judging
you
> just because you don't ask the proper questions with the correct
> assumptions? I certainly have no problem admitting to that!
>
> Now, strictly in that context, I think that any company that offers
> "support" can deliver the message in many ways, sometimes with
> understanding, sometimes with arrogance.
>
> People on this board can deliver a message with empathy, or with
arrogance.
>
> Just like in advertising, it is the way the message is delivered that
> counts, sometimes more than what is said.
>
> In that regard, I believe that both Omega, and sometimes I must say some
> people on this list (notice I'm NOT referring to you necessarily, that
would
> be "arrogant"), rather than take the high road, choose a different path,
for
> many different reasons, but they end up in the same place, and it is
simply
> not as productive as it could be.
>
> Nuff said!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gene Pope
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <the_omega_man@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Limit order works correctly in TS2K
>
>
> >
> > Perhaps it is time to clarify what it is that I support and what it is
> that
> > I'm against. I do not support "Omega", except insofar as the battle
> between
> > Omega and its detrators illustrates certain principles... I shill for
no
> > specific entity. Rather, I defend and advance certain ideas...
> >
> > What's at stake in the battle between Omega and its detractors is
nothing
> > less than life itself. It is the battle between what sustenance and
> improvement
> > of life requires (the constant, consistent application of one's own
mind)
> > and what leads to death (the abdication of one's own mind and one's own
> > efforts - and substitution of reliance of the efforts of others in its
> place).
> >
> > So I decry those who, throwing themselves at Omega's feet, howl that
Omega
> > "owes" them something, or whine that Omega has not done what it should
to
> > support their lives. Such action turns the maintenance of one's life
over
> > to another... Consistently applied, this action will lead to death.
> >
> > I support all action of the independent mind producing what it needs to
> > survive and thrive (whether that action is undertaken by Omega or by
> someone
> > else who creates things which sustain and improve life).
> >
> > Do you see the fundamental difference between the creator, the builder,
> > on the one hand, and the complainer, the beggar, the moocher on the
other?
> >
> > The Omega Man stands with those who use their own minds to create and
> produce
> > value, sustaining and improving life. The Omega Man stands against all
> > those who turn their own productive need over to another, and howl when
> > that other does not supply them.
> >
> > BUILD, you sons-of-bitches, BUILD! Forget what others do or fail to do.
> > Get off your ass and make your own way in this life!
> >
> >
> > The Omega Man
> >
>
>
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