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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:58:57 -1000 (HST)
From: Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*>
To: "Katherine V. Irvine" <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Cc: Wrolf Courtney <wrolf@co*.ne*>, ahall@di*.co*,
     cavers@ca*.co*, techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: tripple this Re: CONTINUOUS REBREATHER DEATHS was Re: Death was a Bigot

> Farb did tell you this, Rich. 

No, he didn't.

> I don't care about anyone suing me ( that would be welcome - we could
> put the bullshit on trial then ), I care about the persistant effort to
> have my opinion blocked. You don't like my opinion of your benefactor,
> the great "Blarney, triple their distance" Stone , you don't like my
> opinion on many pieces of dive gear, and even you want me to shut up
> about it, especially about electronic rebreathers that have the sensor
> block touching the water ( gee, I wonder why that doesn't work?) . 

It's not you I want to shut up.  I just want you to keep the usual 
pointless BS off the rebreather list, so I don't have to waste time 
responding to crap like this all the time. So far, you've been pretty 
good about leaving the RB list alone, so I'm grateful.  As for your 
conflict with Stone - that's between you and him - not me. As for the 
sensor issue - you already know Stone had that one solved long before 
your "boys" did, so I don't really know where you're trying to go with 
that.

>  Of course you do like my opinion of you, which is that you are the
> closest thing to being able to walk on water in 2000 years - a diver who
> can make a cis lunar work for more than five minutes - the Mother Teresa
> of rebreather diving , Rich Pyle. 

Golly - is that really your opinion of me? All I can say is that such an 
opinnion is highly unwarranted, but most flattering.

> Sue me over that comment, or have your
> boy Frank Zappa do it. Better yet, have his "team" of mutants conduct
> another letter writing campaign against me. 

Rest at ease, because I hate the concept of lawsuits almost as much as 
Stone does.  Witness my campaign on techdiver years ago to establish a 
community standard whereby each individual technical-type diver was 
responsible for whather happend to him or her while underwater.  I even 
changed my signature file to read:

*******************************************************************
"WHATEVER happens to you when you willingly go underwater is
COMPLETELY and ENTIRELY your own responsibility! If you cannot
accept this responsibility, stay out of the water!"
*******************************************************************

Remember that?  Now try to explain how it is that you think I would ever 
be involved in any frivolous lawsuit.

>  Why is it that when I have an opinion or information, the Wrolfs have 
> such a huge problem with that? 

Well, if you took the cotton out of your ears and stuffed it in your 
mouth for just a minute, maybe you'd get the point that many of us have 
been trying to hammer through your extraordinarly thick skull for as long 
as we've known you, which is that we like and respect your opinions very 
much, but their value is utterly lost in the delivery.

> Is it becuase my opinion carries the
> weight of the best track record in tech diving, and several worlds
> records, as opposed to the words "going to", "planning to " , "only if"
> , "getting ready to", etc??

Please don't tell me that things like "world records" are what motivate 
you to do what you do.  if that is true, then my respect for your 
opinions just went down a notch.

Rich
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