Prof. Len van der Walt comes semi-clean at DI

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but basically your only source of information is what you read on Internet bulletin boards and in Usenet posts. If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then surely these boards are very dangerous places.


Anyone who feels that he has the power of the mobus vulgaris on an Internet board is in serious need of a flesh-and-blood real life.


So please don't pretend to know what really happened. Very few actually do -- and they found out directly from me. Mostly by phone. But only if they had the brass ones to pick up the phone and call me and tell me their real names and be real people instead of sock puppets from the land of Make Believe.

You claim to be a mathematician of some sort, but the above makes no sense.
Perhaps it's because I'm watching MATRIX 1 right now (goofy Confucius re-take on the Disney 1982 TRON ), but why would people call you to find out about things that happened (if we can use that word ) beyond the looking glass?
Very many years ago (not 2, not 5...in 1997 ) I used to spend a lot of time online, too...as most new things it can (and will ) become additive...but I soon realized I was sick of the bullsh!t alert horn that soon was on all the time...so I progressively reduced my time online.
Since 2001 I totalled a few thousands posts ( not more than 5000 i think ) on ALL the websites I go to...at least 1/3 if not more are the same posts on different forums for awareness purpose...another 1/3 if not more is wasted in feuds with 'online experts' and other phonies:
I utterly despise phonies ( benders, braggarts, impersonators, 'experts'... ).