Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe09.iad.POSTED!8ad76e89!not-for-mail From: Arved Sandstrom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= References: <54equ61922jfjrk8aufgc2cn9qi5p5oo23@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 23 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsgroups-download.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:18:48 UTC Organization: Public Usenet Newsgroup Access Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:18:48 -0300 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5086 On 11-06-07 09:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , Gene Wirchenko > wrote: > >> And if you are not careful with that, you will alienate people >> rather quickly. I will leave it to you to determine whether doing so >> is wise or not. > > Don’t worry about him. I come across this sort of bullshit all the time. You > can tell the type: when they find they’re on the losing end of the argument, > they resort to abusive, ad-hominem attacks. This way, they hope to distract > attention from the actual point. The trick is to keep bringing them back to > the point. > > Sometimes this makes them angrier, which can be a source of amusement in > itself. :) "I come across this sort of bullshit all the time". There is a simple, glaringly obvious reason for that. Albeit not the one you cherish. AHS