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I'm not others
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 08:43 PM EST

I agree, others have said worse things - about Judge Koh for example - I am not them.

I pay little attention - if any - to such authorings. I usually read far enough to hit that expressed opinion - of a lack of respect even though they only have an outsiders view of what Judge Koh may be going through - and I tend to stop reading their posts and move on.

Do I agree with Judge Koh's rulings? Some I do not. Others I have no opinion of because I don't know what they're based on - the evidence is usually unavailable for our perusal. There are those that seem to be reasonable - but again, I know almost nothing about what's fully going on.

Do I agree with what Mr. Hogan appears to have done? Absolutely not, but I still refer to him as Mr. Hogan and do not perpetrate any personal attacks against him. For example: does he appear to have manipulated the rest of the Jury? His own public statements seem to indicate that but I still refrain from calling him a manipulator. A descriptive word which seems to very well fit his acts - but it's still also a name.

Based on the above, I happen to hold the view that calling an Official Court a kangaroo court is moving into the area of name calling. So yea, to me it's an ad hominem attack. It doesn't speak to a particular decision and why he disagrees. It doesn't speak to actual facts. It's nothing more then a name that conjurs up the definition you provided without even substantiating such a definition is applicable. And even if the definition is applicable there is a difference between:

    the kangaroo court like activities
and
    the kangaroo court decided
One is quite clearly a name.

You claim I'm finding fault where there is none. So let's take a look and see what else I can find. There's just the one in that article - I admit it's really tame in comparison to his usual.

Let's take a look at his article on Randi Zukerberg less then 2 weeks ago. Some quotes:

her strange, reclusive brother
Strange?
Because this dumb issue about her dumb photograph is that important.
Dumb?
A company that ran a scuzzy IPO
Scuzzy?

You and I obviously disagree. And that's ok!

I still personally view Lyons authorings to be filled with venom.

I'll stick to the much higher quality of authorings P.J. produces thanks. I don't really much care for Mr. Lyons current style even though it does seem to be substantially better then the past. I'd really have to take a look back and compare to see if he's actually improved or whether it's just the lapse of time that seems to indicate he has.

Whether or not he's saying things I happen to agree with is not my criteria about whether or not I read someone's authorings.

RAS

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Huh?
Authored by: PJ on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 10:23 PM EST
It could be that he was setting me up to be
criticized by Fortune later for allegedly
calling the judge biased. I never did, but
anyone reading what Lyons wrote might think
so.

So that could be the explanation. I trust
him not at all.

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