Re: All vi and clone to be removed from unstable
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:21:01PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:38:36PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> Since they are not derived from the one true editor. Apart from
>> >> being a name calling moron, you have no humour gene.
Anthony> Oddly enough, idiocy within Debian doesn't leave me
Anthony> particularly amused any more, whether it's faked or comes
Anthony> naturally. "Too much of a good thing", and all that.
>> Odd. Humor. Idiocy. All same.
Anthony> No, Manoj, that's not what I'm saying. Maybe it'd be
Anthony> convenient if it were because that's something easy to
Anthony> disagree with, but it's not. Let's look at the subject shall
Anthony> we: "All vi and clone[s] to be removed from unstable". That
Anthony> is idiocy.
No. That is improbable enough to be funny. It takes a tongue
in cheek swipe at the mother of all geeky religious wars, that you
are too bured out from fighting your holy wars to even notice.
Anthony> I've seen enough stupid ideas proposed, that
Anthony> they're not remotely funny anymore, whether it's proposed
Anthony> seriously, or gratuitiously.
As I said. You are too burned out to see any humour in things
technical.
Anthony> I'm sure others aren't, but I am, and since that message was
Anthony> intended to convince me of something, it might have been an
Anthony> idea to take that into account, no?
Take what into account? That you are too jaded for norms of
humour to apply to you? I beg your pardon.
Anthony> But no, clearly it's not that I'm merely fed up with hearing
Anthony> stupid ideas, it's that I have never had any idea what a
Anthony> "joke" is my entire life.
I take your word for the fact that you may have a sense of
humour away from Debian.
Anthony> Do you at least have the intellectual honesty to note that
Anthony> your mail differed from Ian's on three grounds: that he was
Anthony> serious about his proposal, that he believed the people who
Anthony> he was proposing jointly issue it would agree with it, and
Anthony> that he had no intention of having anyone assume that the
Anthony> draft was written by anyone other than him?
>> Intellectual honesty? Do I have to pound you on the head to
>> drive the first two points across?
Anthony> So basically, your answer is "no" ?
You can't even read? I have to really really pound into your
head that the mesage was ironical?
Anthony> I wonder if anyone's ever had the guts to say "yes" to a
Anthony> question that begins "Do you have the intellectual honesty
Anthony> to admit ...".
If you do not have the intellectual honesty to admit that you
asked a loaded question ... Well, in that case; Do you, Sir, have the
intellectual honesty to admit you beat your wife?
Oops. I forgot the bit about a sense of humour and perhaps an
ability to see beyond the surface of a message. In case you haven't
twigged on to it, I found your question not quite worthy of a direct
response.
>> a) and b) -- the message said that it was not really a joint
>> message (draft or otherwise) in so many words.
Anthony> If this is the case, it's not an example of anything you
Anthony> consider bad and thus it's completely irrelevant to the
Anthony> point you're trying to "prove", isn't it?
I see I have to really dot the i's and cross the t's. The
message proved the point --- even when the message said it was not
really a draft joint message, the release manager comes all over in a
huff about the message.
Heh. So a draft joint message, even an obviously fake one,
carries an impact from the implication that the supposed co-authors
were somehow involved.
>> Good Day, Sir.
>> I believe we are done.
Anthony> So, you'd say that "insult whoever you disagree with, and
Anthony> declare the thread over" is a good way of dealing with
Anthony> disputes amongst developers?
No. You were the one throwing words like moron around. Me, I
try not to label people unless as a reaction.
Anthony> It'd be really nice if people didn't follow this pattern:
Anthony> * I believe doing <foo> is bad.
Anthony> * Other people don't seem to realise this self-evident truth.
Anthony> * Therefore I will do <foo>.
Or pretend to do foo, to show people that actually doing foo
would be a bad thing. I do too wish one did not have to weild such a
blunt intellectual weapon, but one can't have everything.
You can't go about lambasting people, and calling them morons,
and expect them to cower from the almighty release manager all the
time.
manoj
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