On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 22:28 -0600, Troll/Idiot wrote: > Well, Brewster, you've chewed it over at some length on several > occasions. Get used to the idea that given the same facts, different > people will reach different conclusions, equally valid.
bg: I'm familiar with that possibility. I am also well able to understand that there are only two possible interpretations of the typical cursor positioning in "REPLY" mode, and a careful assessment of both choices makes it abundantly plain which one is superior. Life presents us with a pattern of differential choices whose relative worth is plain to see for those who bother to examine them. Something that those of the "Whatever!" generations seem to consider way too much hard work for them. It's a lot easier to fall back on meaningless psychobabble bromides like "different people will reach different conclusions, equally valid." I am painfully aware that, in the 21st century, we are inundated with people who have been carefully indoctrinated to believe that all points of view are equally valid, and that all human beings deserve respect solely based in their ability to draw breath. That the most horrific possible outcome might be that something, or someone, could be shown to be superior to something, or someone, else. You'll pardon me if I reject that shit out of hand :-) Troll: > Some people, more experienced than you in email lists and internet forums, > find top > posting preferable. It's not just the newbies, the ignorant and the > inexperienced. bg: Whatever gave you the idea that you know what my level of experience is? I first used email in 1981, and first used elists/forums in about the middle Eighties. I have never encountered anyone with a similar length of exposure who prefers top-posting. You would be the first. Assuming you go back that far. By the way, my email software, a widely used and well-established open source program, specifically says, under "Composer Preferences", that top posting is "not recommended". > Troll/Idiot > Have a nice day. Don't expect everyone else to think like you do. bg: You really are hilarious, and seem to have drawn your argumentative structures from your days in preschool. It is not a matter of expecting people to "think like [I] do". It is a matter of expecting them to think logically, and expecting them to exert a little mindfulness as to how their work impacts their fellow Net users. Now, suppose you explain to me how much sense this three-element interleave would have made had it been written in reverse order. Top-posting is about laziness, and about ignorance, and about having a tin ear when it comes to the more subtle nuances of communications. All of which tend towards, if not limited to, those with the least experience of the Net and its group activities. You are fighting a losing battle, philosophically, and your adversaries in the war, in the aggregate, are vastly more experienced, not just at the Net, but apparently at life, than you. The fact that you may have millions of AOLers, and Yahooers, MSNers and gmailers at your back, these days, still does not make yours the correct position. Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
