From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 19:07:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2758F106564A for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=81700a7bb=pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from ip-001.utdallas.edu (ip-001.utdallas.edu [129.110.20.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFA08FC12 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:07:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Group: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au4EAGnETkyBbgog/2dsb2JhbACTGY08ww2FNgSECQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,269,1278306000"; d="scan'208";a="36802214" Received: from zxtm01.utdallas.edu (HELO utd65257.utdallas.edu) ([129.110.10.32]) by ip-001.utdallas.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 27 Jul 2010 13:38:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:38:38 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100727002048.GB91286@guilt.hydra> References: <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra> <1E1FB8AF2B3AD9F567716164@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20100727002048.GB91286@guilt.hydra> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) X-Munged-Reply-To: Figure it out MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: BSD logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:07:36 -0000 --On Monday, July 26, 2010 18:20:48 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:24:21PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> --On Saturday, July 24, 2010 00:24:46 -0600 Chad Perrin >> wrote: >> > >> > When this is the way someone starts a "discussion" about wanting to use a >> > new OS, I tend to believe there is no genuine interest in using the OS in >> > question. >> >> When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe >> there's no genuine interest in dialog. I am therefore left to wonder who >> really is the intolerant one. One cannot claim to be tolerant while >> demonstrating intolerance any more than one can claim to be educated >> without every having read a book. > > How perspicacious of you. I'll quote myself basically saying exactly > that -- that I am not particularly interested in "dialog" with someone > who, I'm sure, has already made up his or her mind: > > In any case, I didn't claim to be "tolerant". In fact, I very > specifically said I was sure someone would accuse me of intolerance, and > went on to explain that I am guilty of intolerance of those who are > intolerant themselves. Why are you just repeating what I have said, but > in the tone of an accusation? How intolerant are *you* today? > We can let the readers decide that. (Not that it matters to me one way or the other.) The man asked a simple question. You then launched into a lengthy diatribe against intolerance, and you continue to lash out at anyone who takes issue with your responses. I made no value judgments about you. I simply parroted your own words. Yet you rise up in self-righteous anger in response. Then you cement your apparent ntolerance of any criticism with "pot, kettle, black". Perhaps the mote in your eye is obscuring the mite in others. >> >> It's amazing to me the ridicule heaped upon the man for asking a question. >> Would it have been too difficult to simply answer the question, as the >> first response did? No, we have to attack the man for having beliefs that >> are different from our own. Because we're so enlightened? Or because we >> are even more ignorant than we suppose he is? > > I *did* answer the question before heaping ridicule on someone who, as I > stated, I believe had already made up his or her mind, and had no genuine > interest in dialog in the first place. > So now that you know you were wrong, will you apologize? (I'm not holding my breath.) At a minimum, get some help for the anger issues. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson