Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

[Rui Maciel]

On 11/14/2010 01:09 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I'm the responder, not the initiator.

Not as much as a "responder" as a "knee-jerker" and "troll".


> Nice debating technique trying to change the subject from *writing 
> style* to "physical appearance".

You've lost any right to criticize anyone's "debating technique" once 
you tried to attack a message by bitching about irrelevant aspects such 
as the "writing style" which was employed.

> > If you think that the use of run-on sentences is an attack on your
> > freedom of choice,  your hat probably needs an extra layer of
> > tin-foil.
>
> Another failed attempt to twist my words.

I don't see why.  But then again, feel free to provide any explanation 
which demonstrates how writing long sentences "belie your assertion that 
we all should make our own choices".


> >           The right to make your own choice is not in contradiction
> > to the right of people to use emotionally laden terms to persuade.
>
> But they certainly are less effective.

So you are complaining because according to your opinion the message was 
written to be persuasive?

> > Besides, try reading Samuel Pepys someday. People back then could
> > make sentences run on for three or four pages! Literally.
>
> So, because Samuel Pepys wrote run-on "pages" in literal chicken 
> scratch (I looked it up in Wikipedia) that makes it ok for Duncan to 
> do it?
>
> Your post is replete with fallacies.

The sad thing about usenet fading away is that those poor mentally 
imbalanced trolls who waste their time trolling usenet newsgroups start 
to migrate towards other communication media, such as web forums and 
mailing lists.


Rui Maciel