X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!209.197.12.246.MISMATCH!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.144.MISMATCH!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.palinacquisition!news.posted.palinacquisition.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:07:45 -0600 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:07:45 +0800 From: Peter Duniho User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Why =?UTF-8?B?4oCcbmV34oCdPw==?= References: <4d4da290$0$23764$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4dac30$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d4e29fb$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d4f6434$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d4f6ae3$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d4faac2$1@news.x-privat.org> <4d512649@news.x-privat.org> <4d51600d$1@news.x-privat.org> In-Reply-To: <4d51600d$1@news.x-privat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.74.123.211 X-Trace: sv3-NM9p+gQVd+sYKc5kCqe3pgEp/X77te3AonY2HnH8W4+2e3aNKagvhIhfRhlHwQ1SgLsIEUHwZODK51p!gWEY7Q97g2Xv7hqPVc0iUa7JW4tk6Ixu5nKlS5j3q8MoUqoBqKZVeol+OQhNS8OZczpPWokXV5G8!fKvftgPbbmkVzIErnLsgZOFiYrxrYLUZb4IB80y00+21 X-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.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: 3235 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25501 On 2/8/11 11:23 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:24:13 +0800, Peter Duniho wrote: > >> On 2/8/11 7:17 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: >>> [...] >>> Sure I could have tried mucking about with assorted google queries. I >>> just plain didn't feel like it. Satisfied? >> >> Yes. That's all I wanted: your admission, even absent an apology, that >> you were lazy. > > But you didn't get it. I don't agree that it is "lazy" to ask someone > instead of googling. Doesn't really matter whether you agree. You admitted to behavior anyone else would describe as lazy. > What do you usually do if you're talking to someone How is that relevant here? We are not in a direct, face-to-face conversation. It's a completely different type of interaction, one in which it's not only socially acceptable for you to remove yourself from the discussion momentarily in order to look something up, it's _expected_. > [...] > Furthermore, consider what happens if a number of people read a post and, > say, wonder what J is. You are more than welcome to, instead of _asking_ what J is, follow-up with a post that _explains_ what J is. No one is stopping you from that, any more than they are stopping you from asking the lazy question in the first place. Pete