On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:04 AM, richo <ri...@psych0tik.net> wrote: > On 10/12/11 23:56 +1100, John Tate wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:42 PM, richo <ri...@psych0tik.net> wrote: >> >>> While I don't necessarily support the personal attacks, I can't say I >>> totally >>> disagree with the vibe of it. >>> >> >> Please don't presume to psycho-analyse members of the list, and please >>> develop some modesty. If you want hand holding and someone to explain >>> something which is already documented, I would recommend one of the >>> more >>> newby friendly linuxes. >>> >> I am a guru of Linux systems with an immense respect for OpenBSD. >> >> Stay off my website, I wish I could make it Objectivists only, because >> what you are all doing is a STRAWMAN of my blog. I did not intend for it >> to be that way, you had to, in your words translate. In my words that >> means strawman. >> >> Don't enter a logical debate with me. I am not interested. >> >> > Please don't top post. It makes it hard to read. If you must top post, > please > post at the top of the message and not randomly halfway through. It makes > it > impossible to read and a pain to fix (which I have done again). > > The term guru, hacker and wizard are not generally applied to oneself. > There > aren't many people I'd take seriously when they claimed it; and you're not > one of the. A cursory google suggests that you've never written anything, > so > you'll forgive my doubts. Similarly, unless you're planning a one line post > with links to what you've written, I'm uninterested in this debate. > > Demanding that I stay off your website, and then suggesting that you wish > you > could make it accessible only to people who share your world view is in my > opinion retarded. I'm not convinced you really understand what freedom is. > In > the name of helping the fellow man though, I recommend disconnecting that > machine from the internet immediately and mailing hardcopies of it's source > to parties you approave though, ideally encrypted such that character > assassins such as myself can't get hold of it's content in transit. > > Finally, screaming strawman to redirect an argument away from it's original > point is delightfully poetic, but ultimately stupid. If people on the list > repeatedly take issue with your posts, it stands to reason that there is an > issue with your posts. > If the people of the list, are disconnected from the abstract concept of people as in groups of people, and considered individuals - then actually I'm having a good time because actually most the messages are not that bad, some are helpful, and some like this thread are a little humiliating.
> > Some modesty would do you well, and unless you can populate 5 points of > reference that you've read throroughly in the footer of a "I need help" or > "how does this work" post, I would suggest that you have some more reading > to > do. > Not a bad idea actually, but I do look around but you only have my word. > > richo > > > -- > richo || Today's excuse: > > monitor resolution too high > http://blog.psych0tik.net > Psychosis is a terrible illness. -- www.johntate.org
