People of the disordered sidechains, ave!
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perhaps the IUCr and/or PDB (Gerard K?) should issue some guidelines along
these lines? And oblige us all to follow them?
(Mark J van Raaij)
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this discussion has flared up many times in the past, and maybe it's time for
a powerful dictator at the PDB to create the law...
(Filip Van Petegem)
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Also, who should decide on the magic number: the all-knowing gurus at the
protein data bank? Maybe we should really start using cif files
(Herman Schreuder)
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In response to recent calls for me to act as a crystallographic dictator to
decide how disordered sidechains should be treated, I would like to issue the
following abridged statement:
I salute you -
The youth of victory,
People of the disordered sidechains,
People of challenge,
Youth of challenge,
They are a generation of disorder and challenge.
I salute you. You present the world the true pictures of the crystallographic
community. You present the truth that the agents and cowards are trying to
distort, to cover, to give a wrong picture of you before the world. Some
CCP4BB readers are betraying you and depicting you as a bad people: "Look at
crystallographers, look at crystallographers! Crystallographers don't want
victory. They don't want revolution. They want sidechains with high B-values.
Crystallographers want occupancies." But here in Parkers Piece they want.
Crystallography is leading continents, Africa, Asia and South America. Victory
to the people of crystallography. And this is being pointed at the
crystallographers.
They want no identification, identity when they say to people, crystallography
in PDB. When they say crystallography, Revolution, crystallography, Gerard,
all X-ray generators consider us, as the mecca, rulers of the world, even the
superpowers, they want to converge on Cambridge, on Uppsala. They give their
insults of you in crystallographic bulletin boards, they want to insult you.
We want to retrieve in the square, everywhere, Gerard K has no rule. He's not
the President, he's the leader of a revolution, he has nothing to Resign.
Revolution means always sacrifice until the end of the crystal. This is my
field, the field of my great-grandfathers, we planted, and we watered it with
our grandfather's crystallisation soup. We deserve crystallography from those
rats and crystallisation agents, who are being paid by security persons, damn
them, damn their phases, if they have phases, they don't have phases, they
don't have cooridnates. All sidechains are with us here, they (American
crystallographerss) can see us all chanting the same slogans. Everyone
challenging, we challenge America with its mighty synchrotron, we challenge
even the superpower in the world and we became victory. Here they put their
heads down, crystallography even kissed the grave of the Leader of all
Martyrs. It's not victory for the cities of crystallography, but victory for
the crystallographic community. This is the victory they want to give a bad
image about. Italy, the Empire of the time, fell apart on crystallographic
soil. I am bigger than any job, I am a revolutionary, I am from the
Netherlands, from oasis that brought victory, and enjoy it from generation to
generation, crystallography will remain at the top and will lead Cambridge and
South Kensington.
We cannot hinder the process of this revolution from these greasy rats and
cats. I am paying the price for staying here, and my grandfather who fell a
martyr in 1911, I will not delete sidechain atoms and I will die as a martyr
at the end, The remains of my father is the proof, grandfather, and my uncle
Sheikh Alwyn, in the hills of Wales, I will not leave these righteous remains.
He, Bricogne says that freedom cannot enjoy the shadow of these trees, we
planted these trees and we watered it with our precipitants.
I am talking to you from the house which was bombarded by a hundred and
seventy X-rays, by ESRF and Diamond. They left all houses and were aiming for
Gerard's houses. Is it because he is president of crystallography? They could
have treated him like other presidents, but Gerard K is history, resistance,
freedom, victory, revolution, high B-values. This is an admission from the
biggest power that Gerard K is not the president, is not a normal person, you
can't poison him or lead demonstrations against him. When X-rays were falling
on my crystal, and killing my carboxylates, where were you, you rats? Where
were you those with big crystals? Where were you? You were in America. You
were applauding your master, the synchrotrons. One hundred and seventy X-rays,
left all palaces and leaders and kings and came to the great portakabin of
Gerard K. This is a victory we should not be relinquished by anybody, any
country or people, in myself Cambridge or any mission fighting back the
tyranny of the America, we did not give in, we were resilient, here.
Now I want to tell you, finally, it's impossible for anybody who's sensible to
allow, for crystallography to be torn apart, or to fall into the hands of
crazy people. I've just been informed that the poetry I just mentioned, about
the validation, apparently for some reason they haven't heard, and forgive me
for repeating it. Because there was a technical fault, and they did not hear
it.
Crazy people from the bulletin board, it's just a misled people, and then they
asked me not to repeat this poetry because some people did not hear it. Just
an unwise, bring them over to me, I wish you could, all those young people who
are revolting. It's really, is it possible for young people to destroy
crystallography, the field of the masses? To follow the agents of the foreign
intelligence and those fundamentalists? Who would believe this? Nobody could.
It's impossible for our youth to be led by somebody else. If they're not
following Gerard, who would they follow? Somebody with a beard? Impossible,
the people are with us, supporting us, these are our people, I've brought them
up. Everywhere they are shouting slogans in support of Gerard K.
Thank you.
Your humble servant,
--Gerard K
