(a) you constantly make references to "TPTB" and attribute many events to conspiracy theories, without sufficient evidence.
Don't expect an identifiable Jesus. It is a phenomenon that has been going on for a long time. Just open your eyes. Have you actually done any research for example on 9/11. It is absolutely impossible the government's official story. You should know that as an engineer even you are not a civil engineer just a little bit of research will convince you. But it goes on over and over in history much further back than that.
(b) by posting voluminously on this thread in a way that distracts from the natural flow of conversation, I think you're being disrespectful.
I have a lot to say. If everyone else posted more too, then it would balance out. I guess I just think too fast?
I agree the stereotypical engineer's creed and culture is whitepapers, equations, and results over talk. You in fact do limit your posts usually to analysis backed by data and/or equations. Kudos. But discussion is IMO another form of engineering. It is way I brainstorm ideas and bounce them off others.
I gave up a long time ago worrying about some civil level of discourse in public forums. If I tried to achieve that I would fail as has everyone else here.
Also I know repetition is important because ideas are lost in the thicket of people's preoccupations and attention spans.
All in all though, much better for my antagonists if I am here talking and not coding. So I should be taking your advice soon (but when I decide to and not when Cypherdoc thinks he has kicked me out)
(c) by constantly boasting about your intelligence and by making sexist and otherwise derogatory comments, you come across to me as both insecure and rude.
When I say someone else is making technological mistakes, that is not boasting about my intellect. That is pointing out they are making mistakes and over estimating their understanding of the issues.
I am sure I am not the smartest person in this thread. I had already stated Gmaxell is smarter than me in crypto-math. You can add Mixles to that list too, tvbcof is very smart, etc..
(d) by challenging people to fist fights, you're just being downright weird.
That was pretty lame. But I do come from an era and the Deep South where gentlemen settled their differences this way when it had devolved into ad hominem BS and then it was done (go drink a beer together bloodied).
It is weird for you perhaps because maybe you didn't grow up in my culture. You just don't go talking this way to each other (the way Cypherdoc does) where I come from without getting your ass kicked.
In southern gentleman's manner, you act like a gentleman and you are treated as one. Act like a savage and you are dealt with as one.
In summary, I think you are intelligent and have things to offer to the conversation, but I do wish you'd try to improve the delivery of your message.
There is so much noise here in this thread that I had to take some kind of medicine just to deal with enduring it. It is boring (redundant noise) as hell and just trying to liven it up so I don't fall asleep. And waiting for those morsels that make it all worth while.
Such as for example the posts from tvbcof and Mixles. Those paid for my ticket of admission here several times over.