Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.022 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'high-profile': 0.07; '*the': 0.09; '>>>>': 0.09; 'message- id:@web.de': 0.09; 'sure,': 0.09; 'jumping': 0.16; 'received:10.249': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'scientist': 0.16; 'wolfgang': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.18; '(or': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; '"not': 0.23; 'from:addr:web.de': 0.23; '(in': 0.26; "i'm": 0.26; 'compared': 0.28; "i'll": 0.31; "isn't": 0.33; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'supposed': 0.35; 'post': 0.36; 'possible.': 0.39; 'received:de': 0.39; 'being': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'move': 0.40; 'your': 0.61; 'dangerous': 0.64; 'high': 0.67; 'kingdom': 0.70; 'funny': 0.76; 'ages': 0.77; 'edwards': 0.91; 'lone': 0.91; 'rapture': 0.91 Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:53:06 +0100 From: Alexander Kapps User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.9.2.21) Gecko/20110831 Thunderbird/3.1.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Python education survey References: <06423dd7-4fbb-4e7a-b529-e697ea862b05@f11g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <36065956-359d-42cf-a5fc-75fdea830737@y7g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> <470c9b9b-780f-4b00-8fef-adba8b036c2b@32g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> <74b1ed63-f755-49e3-a275-92b2658ef991@o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> <4efabe42$0$29966$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:36LS0FNR8+4Dfny14OkJSIS6TlhMtcG612E1RnaFdlP GPyyqGZrN0L4PzLVljBAGiZXevTBK0aVNngCFxYiM/2p2Oqt7m C8H84t6gEsyLuihWekJ0KabSFOy2w8kr++0py1HBQXLYAY+77s To02KGZJ4GVlgrf1ZqLP1LS6N7DU00sMoJuRwfu9PFwE8LyslQ 1cMuTvho7JtTHbD2PhUJw== X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1325393576 news.xs4all.nl 6910 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34804 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:18287 On 01.01.2012 03:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-31, Alexander Kapps wrote: >> On 31.12.2011 19:23, Roy Smith wrote: >> >>>>> Why do I waste my time reading your pretentious self-important nonsense? >>>> >>>> http://xkcd.com/386/ >>>> >>>> ;) >>> >>> Why ROFLMAO when double-plus funny works just as well? >> >> xkcd/386 has been the excuse for replying to RR for ages and I still >> don't understand why he gets that much advertence. Charity? Sympathy >> for the lone and broken? > > Sadly, RR's post are often (in the supposed words of Wolfgang Pauli) > "not even wrong". > I'm sure, RR is now jumping up high in rapture for being compared to high-profile scientist geniuses. Move fuel for his self-affirmation. I'll give my entire kingdom (or important body-parts, in case my kingdom isn't enough) if people would just understand that perfection(ists) is/are *the most* dangerous thing possible.