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Old August 16th 04, 04:41 PM
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Mike Vandeman wrote:

One doesn't get a Ph.D. by being "mostly" right. You have to be
right 99+% of the time.


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Old August 17th 04, 06:46 AM
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 05:34:55 GMT, Tommy Homicide =

wrote:

Well, yes, he may have a PhD., but he says it's in psychology, and th=

at
humans are too complex and cannot be understood.

I personally would not like to devote all those years studying someth=

ing
to learn that it can't be understood. Could drive a person mad. Maybe=


that's when you get the PhD.


So then it would appear that his PhD in psychology is about as useful =

as
his futile crusade against mountain biking.

One thing he does have going for him: He's quite a successful newsgrou=

p
troll. I'm sure his Mom is real proud.



Ummm, you mean his (2) dads.
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Old August 17th 04, 06:22 PM
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Eugene Miya wrote:
In article
, Scott
Burley wrote:


And, please, stop flaunting your "piece of paper".


I don't mind him flaunting.
There are a lot of PhDs who don't accomplish much after their thesis.


Mike's so-called thesis had to do with how various ethnic groups taste spicy
foods. He has absolutely /no/ credentials as an environmentalist or
conservationist.

Bill "duh, it's OBVIOUS!" S.


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Old August 17th 04, 08:42 PM
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Take comfort in that that's all he's been successful at. He hasn't spoiled
anyone's RIDE and never will...


Indeed.

J


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Old August 18th 04, 07:28 AM
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In article ,
S o r n i wrote:
Eugene Miya wrote:
In article
, Scott
Burley wrote:
And, please, stop flaunting your "piece of paper".


I don't mind him flaunting.
There are a lot of PhDs who don't accomplish much after their thesis.


Mike's so-called thesis had to do with how various ethnic groups taste spicy
foods.


So as Bill Murray said in the 1st Ghostbusters: He can find work in the
Food service industry.

The general problem is that many industries, organizations, and
institutions don't care what a person's doctorate is in. That's their
problem (and it contributes to the country's problems).

He has absolutely /no/ credentials as an environmentalist or
conservationist.


"Environmentalist" and "conservationist" aren't big degree issues.
Dave Brower was well known by these titles, but he didn't had a degree
in biology or forestry, etc.

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Old August 20th 04, 10:08 PM
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I do find this amusing cause the people he is most insulting are the
people who actually intelligently and well thought out post agianst
him. But the sad truth is this is either some odd research paper he is
writing on how to upset the largest group of people with less effort or
it is his own delluisional state and paranoia speaking.


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Old August 20th 04, 10:29 PM
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Mikey-baby says:

.foods. He has absolutely /no/ credentials as an environmentalist or
.conservationist.


How would you know, unless you were an expert? QED


Um... It doesn't take an expert to deduce that a PhD in Trick-Cyclery has no
bearing on ecology or conservation.

It's obvious, DUH!

Steve
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Old August 21st 04, 02:40 AM
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Mike V says:

I learned about mountain biking the old-fashioned way: reading &
direct observation.


BwahahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA'

Stop it Mikey, you're killing me! You learnt about mtbing from reading (?!?)
and observation. Observation? One ride on a fireroad where all you proved is
that you couldn't handle it, got laughed at, and now you hate all mountain
bikers. That's "observation?" Hah! I laugh atr you! I may even bite my
thumb at you, too...

Steve "Shakespeare Day today, obviously"


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Old August 22nd 04, 10:20 PM
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Well of course he is deverting away from the topic at hand, he likes to
point at the same articles and facts over and over agian so eventually
it starts getting redunant. He has a repeating pattern of it and I
doubt it will stop with this discussion since he has a single minded
pursuit of his goals. Since everything I have ever seen him link to or
qoute has been centered around california I would really like to see
other data from other locations, after all Florida doesn't have a hard
soil like Cali does, it is mostly sand and very little hard packed
dirt, or how about the carolinas? Agian different type of soil, how
does mountian biking, hiking and horse back riding affect those
conditions, I am not being hostile or combative here, I really am
curious. Are there reports from other nations, what about India?
Besides a free meal once in a while for tigers wizzing by what kind of
impact does it have on their conditions. These are questions there is
little or no answers for I have searched and honestly as far as I can
tell there isn't much concern on the matter, but the question that
keeps being asked is mountian biking bad for the enviroment, answer
YES, is it worse than hiking, horse back riding or crawling? We don't
know and is it worse than say motorized vehicle on these trails, NO! I
can say that honestly from the trails around here which suffer greatly
from ATV and Dirt Bike use to the point mountian bikers, hikers and
riders avoid them as much as possible. So the question that Mike hasn't
been able to answer with any concrete proof is, is mountian biking the
worst thing for the enviroment and I would have to say if a research
team were to really do heavy work on this the answer would probably be
no, simpy cause if you sneeze now a days it is bad for the enviroment,
if you walk on a blade of grass coming through the asphalt it is
destroying the ozone layer at record speed so on and so forth so
Mountian biking is bad for the enviroment and we should all lock
ourselves away in our homes which need to be floated above the surface
of the planet so that everything will be ok.


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Old September 2nd 04, 09:04 PM
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Mike Vandeman Wrote:
On 29 Aug 2004 14:10:17 -0700, (R.White) wrote:

..Mike Vandeman wrote in message
. ..
.. On 29 Aug 2004 04:42:33 -0700,
(R.White) wrote:
..
.. .Mike Vandeman wrote in message
. ..
.. . On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:50:08 GMT, "S o r n i"
wrote:
.. .
.. . .Scott Burley wrote:
.. . .{MV, I assume:}
.. . . That's called "sour grapes". You are just upset that the
research
.. . . shows that mountain bikng is more harmful than hiking.
.. . .
.. . . Not sure if you're refering to me or cc, but I have no reason
to be
.. . . upset, as I am not a mountain biker. If anything, I have a
slight
.. . . bias towards hiking, though I understand you're none to fond
of that
.. . . either.
.. . .
.. . .Wrong. Mike gives lip service to advocating "pristine"
wilderness, but
.. . .hikes in heavy lugged boots on a regular basis.
.. .
.. . Anyone who has seen my web site (click on the mountain bike)
knows that I hate
.. . those I & have never used them.
.. .
.. . .Bill "hell, he doesn't even bitch about HORSES ****ting and
leaving
.. . .post-holes all over trails" S.
.. .
.. . Horses are native. I do think they shouldn't be shod or used as
vehicles,
.. . however.
.. .
.. .Spanish explorers brought horses by ship in the sixteenth century
.. .thus they are not "native." Your lack of basic knowledge is
astounding.
..
.. Horses evolved in North America. Thus horses are native to North
America. Thanks
.. for demonstrating your ignorance of archaeology. And everything
else. You need
.. to read this:
..
..
..The horses that evolved in North America died off between 8,000 and
..10,000 years ago.

If that were true, we wouldn't have horses today! DUH!

..Modern horses are descended of those imported by Spanish explorers
and
..others. They are not the native horses that once roamed and evolved
here.
..DUH!

All animals die, but some of them pass on descendents. Those Spanish
horses
wouldn't be there, unless they descended from the first horses that
evolved on
the Earth! So horses ARE native to North America. DUH!
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The modern hose evolved in EUROPE not north america. It is a different
species and therefore IS NOT NATIVE to north america.

Under your logic elephants are ntive to N.Am. too... after all the
wooly mammoth lived here once. I think we should introduce the bengal
tiger here because the sabre tooth died off. (mike, notice the blatant
sarcasm)

You've got to be kidding but it's obvious you're just stupid


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