On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:53:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
> >
> > The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make
> > me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for.
>
> Umm, in the "car wor
Sorry for continuing this flamewar,
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:55:32AM +0200, Nikola
Petrov wrote:
> Just because my mom doesn't want to wrap her
> text or use non html make her a worse/better
> person. She just doesn't care and wants her work
> done.
This exactly makes her a person who _doesn't
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:55:32AM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:53:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
> > >
> > > The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make
> > > me a newbie.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:53:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
> >
> > The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make
> > me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for.
>
> Umm, in the "car wor
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
> The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make
> me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for.
Yes, it *does* make you an ignorant newbie, on the topic of "automotive
engine maintenance". (I'm o
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:42AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people:
>
> 1. Ignorant newbies
> 2. Ineducable morons
> 3. Spammers
>
> There are no exceptions.
This statement is complete and utter crap. I receive HTML mail
regularly from co
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:06:03PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> HTML provides all of the features [...]
HTML also provides all of the bugs.
"Nothin's free." (c.f. "Crossfire", Stevie Ray Vaughan, 1989)
Several points (and these aren't exhaustive, merely illustrative):
1. It is very difficult to
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 06:24:35PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:06:03PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> > HTML provides all of the features [...]
>
> HTML also provides all of the bugs.
No, it doesn't. The implementation does.
> 1. It is very difficult to conduct a tech
