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From: "roger steele" <rogersteele@ho*.co*>
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: Deeptech
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:12:40 CST
If these statistics are non-existent or impossible to get to, what are  
you basing your claims upon?  I do not know whether these statistics 
exist or not.  That is why I am asking you. In fact, if you have known 
this all along, why are you just now making this claim?  Have you 
inquired to DAN for these statistics?  I doubt it.  You have a very 
difficult problem to surmount now.  By this statement you have admitted 
that you have no factual evidence to support your various claims of 
negligence by TDI.  On the other hand, if you do inquire to DAN  and do 
find relevant statistics, you will in essence defeat the argument that 
you have presented below.  (To make this absolutely clear: you claim 
below that I know that this information does not exist.  Therefore, I 
ask the impossible of you.  If you do initiate a search and find 
information, this claim will be proven to be false. On the positive 
side, you might find evidence for your claims.  This will be a step 
forward for you, since you don't have this information now and therefore 
cannot support your claims.)  Stating that my arguments are lame is easy 
to do, proving that they are is much harder.  But, all I ask is that you 
do research, and report back.  I will take your claims very seriously at 
that point, if the evidence supports them. In fact, I will join you.

Roger

>From cobber@ma*.ci*.co* Thu Jan 22 12:50:14 1998
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>From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
>To: "Dan Volker" <dlv@ga*.ne*>,
> "roger steele" <rogersteele@ho*.co*>,
> "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
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>Dan, Thanks for your input, but it is a waste of your time.
>
>Roger wants to have statistics that he knows do not exsist or are 
>impossible to get to. This is his lame argument to prove that TDI is 
>innocent by no direct evidence. Very clintonesqe of him.
>
>Our argument is pointing out the obvious, TDI teaches dangerous diving 
>practices (i.e. deepair). Very simple, but apparently too simple for 
>Roger.
>
>We are whipping a dead horse.
>
>  Jim
>
>On 1/22/98 2:12 PM Dan Volker wrote:
>
>> Let me help :) you guys in this argument a little.
>>
>>The analogy is, a school, ( call it the TDI School of Intelligent 
Drunk
>>Driving ---this of course in no way related to the Diving Agency of 
similar
>>name....), which  is prospering from convincing a willing public they 
can
>>drive safely while drunk, provided they take these special courses, 
and pay
>>this school enough money.
>>
>>  Issue # 1-----Can a person learn to drive drunk, with an expectation 
of
>>safety for themself and others????
>>
>> Issue #2---- How intelligent is the population which responds to this
>>school by enrolling----and can they be seen as a responsible cross 
section
>>of the "Driving World" , given their belief that it is proper for them 
to
>>Drink and Drive, with an expectation of safety..
>>
>>Issue # 3----While the idea of a school for "Intelligent" Drunk 
Driving may
>>be bad, the greater concept is "Drunk Driving in general"......, and a
>>majority of enlightened drivers happens to be in "absolute agreement"  
that
>>Drunk Driving is a dangerous practice, and that people have died as a 
direct
>>result of it, and that Drunken Driving will most certainly kill more. 
..
>>
>>Issue #4-----Given Drunk Driving is considered to be a dangerous 
practice by
>>the enlightened, a school that attempts to prosper through the 
justification
>>of Drunk Driving  ( through their certification ) , might better be
>>considered a danger to the public, and to those naive enough to 
believe the
>>claims as to the possibility of "Intelligent Drunk Driving".
>>
>>Issue # 5  ---Whether or not a direct correlation between graduates of 
this
>>"School" for "Intelligent Drunk Driving" , and deaths attributed to 
drunk
>>driving can be made at this time, one of the reasons a member of 
society may
>>pride themselves as intelligent, is the occasional "leap" of
>>understanding --- such as being able to connect these two issues as 
highly
>>related, without the need for direct correlation....i.e., "Do you 
really
>>need to kill people to make a point ???"
>>
>>So what the hell are you guys really arguing about :)
>>Regards,
>>Dan Volker
>
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