Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: 13 Jun 2014 19:21:16 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Lines: 39
Message-ID: <c0119bF8cepU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <lmi170$v2m$1@dont-email.me> <i_CdndYZoviRfRHOnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d@giganews.com> <bv49nnF7ameU1@mid.individual.net> <lmkug8$4e9$2@dont-email.me> <barmar-A6DAC0.12564403062014@news.eternal-september.org> <slrnlos8r5.am0.g.kreme@amelia.local> <lmngnp$i0l$4@dont-email.me> <do_ray_me-C2133E.08364105062014@aioe.org> <9eWdnVQgKbylfg3OnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@giganews.com> <lmsonp$ilo$5@dont-email.me> <w-GdnccPnqdQmQ7OnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <lmveq4$3fd$1@dont-email.me> <bvif9jF64mdU1@mid.individual.net> <bvjti7FfjjaU1@mid.individual.net> <DOqdnd-mrp3s9ArOnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <110620140934273352%michelle@michelle.org> <0ZWdnTjR9K4q2QfOnZ2dnUVZ_vEAAAAA@giganews.com> <lnfefh$ki0$2@dont-email.me> <uJSdnfezBPJlogbOnZ2dnUVZ_hydnZ2d@giganews.com> <slrnlpmhtb.s6a.timmcn@sugaree.local>
X-Trace: individual.net wxsqunwO1pfGUPTfZOLB7AhEKEMsV1U1p4wRmrFjvofpok6CiU
Cancel-Lock: sha1:P6dG73yWhhdftzDMNR0/jmGhRCI=
X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1<n@LQ!aZ7vLO_nWbK~@T'XIS0,oAJcU.qLM dk/j8Udo?O"o9B9Jyx+ez2:B<nx(k3EdHnTvB]'eoVaR495,Rv~/vPa[e^JI+^h5Zk*i`Q;ezqDW< ZFs6kmAJWZjOH\8[$$7jm,Ogw3C_%QM'|H6nygNGhhl+@}n30Nz(^vWo@h>Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-)
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin)
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22846 comp.sys.mac.system:60876

On 2014-06-13, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:16:23 -0400, Alan Browne 
><alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014.06.13, 14:04 , Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote:
>>>
>>> For your reference, records indicate that
>>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll pledge cash when he pledges skin in the game.
>>>
>>> What does that even mean in this context?
>>
>> That you take risk on yourself.  That is you invest your time and do 
>> such a bangup job that we'll all be willing to buy the product.  You 
>> don't even need to manage that part - toss it at the Apple Store.
>
> Alan, I am curious as to what you do for a living.  Did you get your job 
> by showing up somewhere and starting to work, hoping you'd do such a 
> bangup job that they'd pay you?  Did you stop working at some other job 
> to do this, giving up half a year's income to do so?  Did you have a 
> mortgage to pay, a family to provide for, car payments, utilities, 
> groceries to buy?  Were *you* willing to take the chance that no one 
> would pay you for your time and effort?
>
> 'Cuz all those things are what you're asking Doc to do so have "skin in 
> the game."  If you didn't have the balls to take that risk on yourself, 
> then you have no standing to expect someone else to do it.
>
> It's easy to be an ass.  Maybe you should set the bar higher for 
> yourself.

His entire argument so far is petty and weak.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR