Message-ID: <694f048d@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: The Web (HTML) Sux Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <10i7khm$2e0ab$3@dont-email.me> <10i8lit$2ltf1$1@dont-email.me> <10i8u2b$2p3ha$1@dont-email.me> <69487137@news.ausics.net> <20251222135823.000042ea@gmail.com> <10icgk7$3rvck$1@dont-email.me> <20251222144314.000060d0@gmail.com> <10icj90$3snlp$2@dont-email.me> <20251222153725.000058b6@gmail.com> <10icl7j$3t6jc$2@dont-email.me> <20251223095921.00004fba@gmail.com> <10ieujr$hok8$6@dont-email.me> <20251223134153.00005fb0@gmail.com> <10if2hu$ivad$3@dont-email.me> <20251223141950.00003c1f@gmail.com> <10ilu9k$2kcl3$4@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 27 Dec 2025 07:56:29 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 26 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79887 Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-12-23, John Ames wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:45:34 -0000 (UTC) >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> > *A.* that's not what a straw-man argument is ... >>> > ... Obviously, having trouble with a misbehaving website is a >>> > smaller thing than burning to death in a badly-renovated apartment >>> > building. >>> >>> You say no, and then you say yes. >> >> A straw-man argument is, to quote Wikipedia, "the informal fallacy of >> refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, >> while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction." Shoddy work- > > Now that's funny, because I think this describes almost perfectly > *Lawrence's* reactions in several threads here. Very true. I'm frequently convinced that he's just trolling half the time (at least), and perhaps blatant hypocrisy like that is even part of the bait... -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#