Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-20 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:55:21 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Winner on what grounds? From the tone of the vast majority of his posts it would seem to be "he who posts in most vitriolic manner". Not commendable. I think you need to re-emerge life-humour/sarcasm

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-20 Thread David Leverton
On Saturday 20 September 2008 05:55:21 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Winner on what grounds? From the tone of the vast majority of his posts > it would seem to be "he who posts in most vitriolic manner". Not > commendable. Do you really expect that, after all the lies, slander, FUD and personal attacks

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:55:21 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Winner on what grounds? From the tone of the vast majority of his posts > it would seem to be "he who posts in most vitriolic manner". Not > commendable. > I think you need to re-emerge life-humour/sarcasm -- Neil Bothwick If ignor

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Davi Vidal wrote: Em Wednesday 17 September 2008, David Leverton escreveu: 2008/9/17 Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Actually I still don't think --resume --skipfirst can do big harm to my system. After all, my system have been running well for several years. If you get so many bu

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Davi Vidal
Em Wednesday 17 September 2008, David Leverton escreveu: > 2008/9/17 Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Actually I still don't think --resume --skipfirst can do big harm to my > > system. After all, my system have been running well for several years. > > If you get so many build failures that you fe

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/17 Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually I still don't think --resume --skipfirst can do big harm to my > system. > After all, my system have been running well for several years. If you get so many build failures that you feel the need to systematically ignore them, then your system is

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Zhang Le
On 15:39 Wed 17 Sep , Stroller wrote: > To be completely fair, if you deal with other peoples' problems on IRC on a > regular basis then you will know the number of idiots to be quite > staggering. There is an unending supply of them - if only we could fuel > automobiles with idiocy! - and a

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Zhang Le
And BTW, the command I mentioned in that unpleasant IRC conversation is still here: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20061002-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3 If I am an idiot, then all gentoo dev's are too. Sorry, my dearest fellow dev's, but this is #paludis people's logic and of course they are wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Zhang Le
On 15:39 Wed 17 Sep , Stroller wrote: > Finally, I might add that the log we've seen posted was taken without any > context. Perhaps the user is known on the channel for his idiocy, for > winding the devs up, for asking stupid questions on a daily basis and not > listening to advice given?

[gentoo-user] F'ing Idiots on IRC Re: A plea for calm

2008-09-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Sep 2008, at 00:27, b.n. wrote: ... In any case, even if r0bertz is a clueless idiot, the only sane approach is even in this case to calmly and rationally explain (or providing links to information) why what he was doing was, in your opinion, wrong. To be completely fair, if you de