[Simon Hunt]

Charlie, you refreshingly admit your self-evident total ignorance, then go on to pontificate again about what you admit you don't know and don't understand. In doing so, you sound like a... well, less than persuasive and less than clever [on reflection and in response to advice, I redact a naughty word and an unflattering epithet...]. I'm sort of hoping the simile there saves me from being ad hominem. If not, apologies--but I'm still a little stung by your wishing for my extermination up-thread before your unpersuasive disavowal of same.