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>>more...maybe you'll get it.  oh, hum...maybe[bla bla bla bla... ad nausium]

Funny how people can dish it out, but can't really take it.

>The wonderful thing about fools is that they never know how foolish 
>they are even when it is pointed out to them.  As Mark Twain put it 
>"the invincibility of idiocy".
>
>Good luck Alexis.  You'll be needing it.

Thank you...I appreciate the gesture...but.

Actually good luck to you. See, I won't be needing LA 5, since I am NOT
going to Pay $399.00 for a "Skip Upgrade".  Because paying that amount for
"Skip Upgrade"...Well, THAT, my friend, is downright foolish and idiotic.  I
would rather be called a fool, then to have paid 399.00 for a "skip upgrade"
and still called a fool for doing so...At least this way, I am a fool who is
$399.00 richer.

But, you didn't see the real point.  I was in fact raising issue not only
for me, but for you and other as well.  But you chose to be ignorant about
it.  Really think of what you said, see your dialogue.  So, instead of
seeing this as potentially being "you" one day.  You chose to see it with
"the invincibility of idiocy".  You are effectively pointing a finger, but
yet, there three fingers pointing right back at you.  But also, "On the
other hand, you have different fingers." and yet, you failed to see that, as
well.  You also failed to see that you have actually "pointing NOTHING out
to me"...nothing, nada, zilch, ZERO.  You have done nothing to serve, just
divide.

You chose to direct energy in a way, that condemns me.  Instead of
pragmatically looking at the situation and saying..."hmmm, that does sound a
bit fishy.  399.00 dollars for a skip upgrade?!".  But you don't care about
that, now do you.  You will only care, when it is you in the circumstance
and your ass.  Until that day happens, you are happy...to which one can say,
"Ignorance is bliss".  So, while you're flexing your intellect and quoting
"Mark Twain"...think about what Twain did for his colleagues.  

For years, he was friends with Nikola Tesla.  And when Tesla started
becoming destitute, he literally sponsored Tesla for years.  With his own
money.  Why, because he realized the "the invincibility of idiocy" was not
his good friends innocent approach to life and business.  He realized Tesla
may have lost in business, yes, but a true Genius and a great mind.  The
"the invincibility of idiocy" came from the people that screwed him over. 
Twain was a great man, in that respect.  Because while Tesla was eventually
forced into climbing up power poles, cleaning up and fixing DC power lines
created by Edison, just for his room and board.  It wasn't until later, that
some people gathered together and said "hey, now wait a minute, AC is
better...look."  Tesla...not Edison...so who was the fool.  And if we had
gone forward with Tesla's inventions, just maybe we would all have
incredible amounts of electrical resources for FREE.  The idea, is that
Edison was selling crap, and only few people knew it. Yet to this day, we
exploit Tesla's AC and yet pay for it through Edison company...lol.

Also, note that Edison was very much like Microsoft is today...Edison didn't
really invent anything, just bought patents and found ways to make them
work...the only true invention that Edison can claim, was the Electric
Chair.  To which Twain, thought was pretty stupid, pointless and disgusting.
 Edison being a bit of money grubbing sloth.  Edison also held the patents
for the moving picture camera.  To which, if you wanted to make a movie, you
had to rent it from Edison and Edison only.  Then one day, the Warner
Brothers rented a moving picture camera, and never returned it!  LOL.  They
stole their first camera, and screwed Edison...Karma for Edison, because
some people actually thought him to be an ass. So did Twain.

Twain also said:  Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of
a good example.
(from me to you)

Twain Also said:  If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he
will not bite you.  This is the principal difference between a man and a
dog.
(pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?)

Twain Also said: Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. 
(hence, maybe I shouldn't have said anything at all...hmmm...then later let
you discover this crap on your own.  Oh well, next time.)

Twain Also said: The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be
damned.
(yet, another way of seeing who is really out of line here ME or Emagic.)

Twain Also said: An Ethical man is a Christian holding four Aces.
(too funny to resist)

Twain Also said: Principal have no real force except when one is well fed. 
(proving piracy of software is inevitable...just thought I would toss that
in there.)

Twain Also said: The church is always trying to get other people to reform,
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.
(This one metaphorically speaks to Emagic, regarding the 399.00 "skip
upgrade" and even add in the  upgrade schemes which are effectively draining
some of peoples resources.)

Twain Also said: Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some
observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
(apparently today, this has proven to be true)

Twain Also said: There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the
over-refined.
(again...to funny to resist.  This one is for Emagic and their lack of
humor.)

Twain Also said: The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious
possession--what there is of it.
(apparently not of value to you or Emagic, so therefore there is no need for
respect.)

Twain Also said: A robber is much more high-toned than what a pirate is--as
a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the
nobility--dukes and such.
(again...a little jab at Emagic)

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."  Salvador
Dali
(I love Dali, don't you?)

"Facts are the enemy of truth." Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha" 
(fact is: 399.00 for a "skip upgrade" is bullshit...yet most don't see the
truth of that.)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it
is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."  Arthur
Schopenhauer
(so now, I am waiting for the truth to become self evident...it has for
some.) 

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer
shelf life."  Frank Zappa
(perhaps I should accept this as truth.)

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix 
(good advice, that everyone should heed)

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." Samuel Palmer
(need I say more)

"The covers of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce
(Emagic Manuals)

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."  Henry David Thoreau 
(more jabs at Emagic, for current upgrading procedures and unethical
charging of 399.00 for a skip upgrade)

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good
teacher." Flannery O'Connor 
(A good stab at Emagic's software...LOL.  If one really thinks
about...ROTFLMAO!) 

"The truth is more important than the facts."  Frank Lloyd Wright
(the truth is: 399.00 for "skip upgrade" is too much money...hence, renders
all the facts that surround this concept totally mute...LOL.)

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."  George Santayana 
(more on me and they way I operate)

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain
(he is right on this one, don't ya think?)

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."  Carl Gustav Jung
(from me to you) 

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom
Clancy
(he, he, he...I love that one!  Goes to show, just how "logical" 399.00 for
skip upgrade is.)

However, what you did was very short sighted to ideal of greatness in the
human spirit.  What "I" did, was raise the issue and present it on the
table.  The wool has been pulled over your eyes, not mine.  Because you
agree to this, not me.  For every individual that agrees with this, is just
going corner themselves later on.  I will have ventured forth onto other
things...and eventually you will be talking to me on another list somewhere
else...or not.  But I guarantee you, I won't ever pay, $399.00 for skip
upgrade.

A quote from me:  I do respect you...not as the human you are, but as the
human you are not.
(I hope I didn't inadvertently plagiarize that one.)

Peace, and...
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx 
Alexis