Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:32:52 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:32:50 +0000 From: lipska the kat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Need clarification on Object.equals. References: <909022a2-ead4-45e6-9f43-79b5013e04ee@googlegroups.com> <67da22eb-42d8-40bf-b172-9aac1eef268e@googlegroups.com> <50d13174$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <-vKdnV0vgsl4CUzNnZ2dnUVZ8sOdnZ2d@bt.com> <50d1ca29$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50d1caa3$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <56CdnSA79uu5Q0zNnZ2dnUVZ7ridnZ2d@bt.com> Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-vR6tHA5QJ4r0PAnUCdAo/80GEuixphRu3R9fpQO/3m83HTPzfi1LtBiPoUsv9Rbt4xN04FGdub9MZRo!p9+SB/c/SZc42/B20v6x/ZsgcbGbO+zbC8hltW/YsakF0Sp+Hb4JqJsEJRQgIM28J6GOtlF/1j0= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4331 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20535 On 19/12/12 14:58, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > On 12/19/2012 8:36 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> On 19/12/12 14:09, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> On 12/19/2012 9:07 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>>> On 12/19/2012 6:22 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >>>>> On 12/19/2012 2:20 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >>>>> ... >> >> [snip] >> >>> >>> My point is that while newbies do have a "allowed to post >>> stupid questions" card, >> >> Your arrogance is almost beyond belief. Listen to yourself >> You really do think that you are in some way qualified to pass judgment >> on what is a stupid question and what isn't. > > I would suggest that you finish reading entire posts before starting > yelling matches, for if you had finished the sentence (assuming basic > fluency in reading comprehension), you would have learned that Arne was > opining that the criterion for what should be considered socially > acceptable by this newsgroup isn't the quality of the question but > rather by whether or not it is insulting. Also note that there was in no > way any attempt to delineate specifically what class of questions > corresponds to "stupid questions," which is apt because the entire point > of the post was to postulate the nonimportance of such a class. Well for someone who can spout such a long winded discourse about nothing in particular I'm surprised you don't see the obvious. Allow me to explain as simply as possible. Lets take the sentence "allowed to post stupid questions" Who or what exactly 'allows' someone to post a question. I suggest it is the nntp protocol over the users internet connection, it certainly isn't you or one of you little group of self appointed administrators. The word 'stupid' in the context of a question implies an analysis of the question and an opinion as to it's stupidity, who's opinion exactly, yours ? What makes you or anyone else qualified to determine the validity of any question anywhere on Usenet ... your own grossly inflated ego perhaps. You are missing the point. It is not this particular instance of arrogance I particularly object to although there have been some spectacular instances of arrogance here today, but the general preponderance of puffed up self appointed quasi academic popinjays that inhabit usenet in general and this group in particular and are strangling what should be a forum for the free and frank exchange of views. > Unless you were trying to be ironic. Oh the irony lipska -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun