Post #189,730
1/11/05 8:43:07 AM
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Once again it strikes me
amidst one of my few arguments here, how wonderful it is that such a large group of people, with such a diverse set of opinions can remain by and large friendly.
It's very easy to 'go off' on someone in text (or any time when you aren't face-to-face). I've done it, others have done it, many will in the future. Still the level of respect and friendly discourse remains (there HAVE been a few regrettable exceptions, but nothing's perfect) high.
This is a special place on the 'Net.
Thanks!
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #189,741
1/11/05 9:54:08 AM
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FOFF!
Forget Often, Friend orFoe!
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #189,744
1/11/05 10:08:16 AM
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It is defintely a special place.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #189,746
1/11/05 10:12:08 AM
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Full of "special" people.
:-D
Peter
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Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
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Post #189,757
1/11/05 11:24:53 AM
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You're dribblin' again... :)
Seriously, though, I love you all.
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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Post #189,783
1/11/05 2:52:52 PM
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No, your ass does that all on its own.
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #189,817
1/11/05 4:45:42 PM
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I'll let your (double) post speak for itself. :)
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Post #189,908
1/12/05 8:58:14 AM
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Laugh self to death.
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #189,784
1/11/05 2:53:09 PM
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No, your ass does that all on its own.
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #189,771
1/11/05 1:08:18 PM
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What I think the difference is here.
"Going off" on some one here many more times than not means "going off on their thought/idea". That's geniune debate. And since we've lifted the taboo against "religion and politics" the debates here, at times, become heated. But it is almost always the person's idea that gets attacked and rarely the person him/herself. Especially in religious or political discussions, that is rare.
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
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Post #189,774
1/11/05 1:28:13 PM
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*smile*
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #189,786
1/11/05 2:57:50 PM
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So me taking Ross to task on his ideas...
Was seen as bad?
According to Ross it was. Dunno. I am just a little ole puter putzer. Not some big Ole Mathematician.
Oh, I guess it is for the best.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #189,806
1/11/05 4:18:22 PM
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Quite the opposite.
Flaming an idea is never bad. Flaming a person OTOH is very bad form. Except of course, in the appropriate Forum. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
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Post #189,813
1/11/05 4:33:19 PM
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He started the personal attacks. With his
Southern Supremacy Theory and how the USA has gone down hill since the 1850s. HOW did HE know?
Then talking about the Dual Telescope thing... I argued that it was money very well spent, along with the flexible lenses. He just melted like a plastic "Green Army Man" under the Magnifying glass in Summer.
His final harmph was the fact I was taking him to task on his blatant statements in the Science forum. I believe over the Telescope issue.
Just like he did in the Linux Forum for me, with advice on howto "blacklist things" and many other things. Like GRUB is a GNU HORRIBLE IDEA... etc... He stooped low enough to actually start calling ANYONE that used Debian a Socialist/Commie or some such.
I'll admit, I hammered Norm... and hopefully atoned for it.
Ross, just blew apart like an incendiary grenade. At the mere mention of BullShiite on his "statements".
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #189,845
1/11/05 6:37:14 PM
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perhaps you missed the conversation at beeps (new thread)
Created as new thread #189844 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=189844|perhaps you missed the conversation at beeps]
that way too many Iraqis conceived of free society as little more than a mosh pit with grenades. ANDISHEH NOURAEE
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Post #189,858
1/11/05 7:06:59 PM
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Cripes! Does that mean I have to start using Debian?
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
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Post #189,861
1/11/05 7:10:49 PM
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You mean you aren't yet? That might explain it.... >:-)
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Post #189,862
1/11/05 7:12:49 PM
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:-D
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
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Post #189,940
1/12/05 1:19:25 PM
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It was about negativity for me
Ross was so negative about everything, and so vehement against specific things that it just got to me. Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did.
As for Norm, one must remember when considering him, that his entire goal up here was to get himself hammered by people. At least that is what he admitted to us.
If someone is hell-bent upon getting flamed, abused and mistreated, that someone is likely to find a way to do it.
Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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