Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:11:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:10:58 -0700 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.8.126.96 X-Trace: sv3-iKjP734jzN4J7stn8PFyFaSdEoq46pjAincV84MpaXkw3g5ixEmJHPqkAmcxgfXxSs9lAsPtchMiiqK!HUT4TwfbYYQrR9Qi43sJdr+N3vafDFLrg6Hk6np3ar3HWYoyqo70EpUzuvotX1ENc0XuKFEyvIsF!8WFPBUI3HHbvIW67GdaPyotCrmsTMI5z17swxZwfULY= 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: 2714 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2766 On 4/2/2011 10:53 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:24:20 -0700, Patricia Shanahan > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> >> "corporate code-cutter drones" is not a particularly polite way of >> referring to people who have been trying to help you. > > I find it distressing how rude people are both requesting help and > offering it. A cheap way to put a comedy show on the air is just have > people insult each other. I think a whole new generation has grown up > thinking of insult as a form of entertainment. > > The Internet isolates people from a punch in the nose, being screamed > at, threatened or other physical retaliation. You see the same effect > then when people are isolated in cars. They behave quite differently > than they would face to face. I don't think it is primarily a matter of physical retaliation. I'm five and a half feet tall, female, with gray hair and arthritic knees. I would lose a physical fight with most newsgroup participants, and nobody really worries about me punching them in the nose. I suppose I could scream quite loudly, but tend not to do so. I've never been called a corporate code-cutter drone, or anything resembling it, to my face, not even in the early 1970's when I was working for NCR as a junior programmer, and my job really was writing the code I was told to write. Patricia