Jesus can you people can it!? This is getting old take your bickering off
the list. I don't think myself or anyone else would care to hear your
personal attacks and jibes at each other. I'm hear to learn, not to watch a
verbal boxing match.
Nick Horton
-Original Message-
From: Mike Corbeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Pittman, Merle wrote:
YOU ARROGANT P---k!!
So a few math and physics courses (probably from mail
order, or your nearest
community college) make you all that. I have 2 advanced degrees in
engineering (electronics and computers) yet I think myself
no better or
smarter than anyone on this list and neither should you.
Having advanced degrees does not necessarily make you a
sharper human being,
except that you know more about the technical business you
studied in. Humans
are not reduceable to merely technological terms. There's a
hell of a lot more
to being a totally balanced human being than an ego trip
over advanced degrees
in technology.
Don't know if you're noticed or not, but technology has also
been much the
cause for the serious degradation of the natural environment
on this planet;
therefore, before waving your pieces of paper, think first,
because these
aren't impressive, no where as much as the continuous
destruction of the
natural environment of this planet is.
If only people with might high pieces of paper in technical
studies could only
figure out that simple reality.
My arrogance is only your interpretation. I wonder if
someone who waves highly
advanced pieces of paper can figure out the simple meaning of
this; however, to
give you a little assistance, what it means is that I'm not
at all arrogant and
it's merely in your eyes that I am. What I am, though, is
FRANK and a no-bs
type.
If you prefer bs, pc crap, then by all means, continue to
live that way, if
that's how you like to perceive the world; however, don't
ever pretend your two
pieces of paper to be of any true significance to me, for
reasons as stated
above. That's what I have to think about many so-called
highly educated types.
I don't reduce humanity to mathematics or science, but
instead take the
opposite pov, which is to put these sciences to the service
of HUMANITY. Hence
I BELIEVE in PEOPLE, far more than I believe in the sciences
we discover and
develop, but use so atrociously.
If you don't grasp this truth, then believe me when I tell
you, you'll never be
convincing, not to me.
If you knew how to read, then you'ld have realized very
clearly that I wasn't
bragging, but only describing my pov and reasoning to
illustrate. T'was not at
all for bragging, because, as per above.
mike
-Original Message-
From: Mike Corbeil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Mikecorrect me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the guy who's
been telling some folks in this list that their questions aren't
appropriate for this forum and to go ask them in the expert
list? Well I think that your response in this thread (quoted
below) was not appropriate for the newbie list. The remedy here
was very simple and your four rambling paragraphs have simply
served to confuse the issue.
Not really, but then maybe I've been accustomed to less
than trivial for
longer
than I can recall. When I first started learning about
computers and
programming, my ramble wouldn't have caused any problems,
but then I also
had a
few years of math and physics behind me. Nonetheless, if
I think back to
before
that, then I wouldn't have been put off by a more
thorough explanation.
Heck, my
father wanted me to help him remodel the house when I was
a mere 8 years
old;
therefore, I've been held to above normal expectations
for decades.
If you're confused, then don't think that this means that
everyone else
who's a
newbie would also be confused. As I recall in school, in
every course, at
every
level, not everyone was equally comfortable with the material.
What I prefer to do when I find an answer or document too
complicated, is
to
stick with the one I was more comfortable with, as long
as it works.
Otherwise,
I just ask questions for clarification.
We're not communicating between people in grade 1 of
elementary school,
here;
therefore, expect some people to provide more thorough
answers. When you
don't
like it, move on. If newbies seeking help scream in
panic, then this will
definitely help to indicate that what you say is true,
but as it is,
you're
pretending to be able to speak for them, instead of
