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Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:02:59 +0100 |
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"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>> Please read the previous two paragraphs together. You ridicule Eli for
>> not managing to fix your breakage in the first try, and then state that
>> you yourself have no idea what caused it.
>
> !!! I wasn't ridiculing Eli, I was implicitly poking fun at myself.
You take yourself more important than others if you consider
_implicitly_ poking fun at yourself an adequate justification for
_explicitly_ poking fun at somebody else. In particular if you keep the
former to yourself.
> As for the rest of your response, I'll pass over it in polite silence.
> But your chances of successfully influencing my future behavior just
> decreased.
I did not consider them high to start with, but would have considered it
inappropriate to leave Eli to deal on his own with what amounts to
friendly, self-deprecating bullying. The choice of communication
standards involves two parties.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, (continued)
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, David Kastrup, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/12
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/12
Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/13