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Seeks and destroys sea-bound CodeMonkeys...
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--Cpt. Vince Foster
2nd Cannon Place
Fort Marcy Park, VA

P.S. I'm bored

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  • You see, Jack, this is the embodiment of some people's problem with you.

    I'm afraid not, what follows the above sentence is actually your opinion.

    You seem to think that the "newbies and the young chaps" and the "lunatic fringe" (these were your own words, yes?)

    Yes, those are my words but...

    do not have anything to contribute, ergo deserve to be ignored.

    ...that is your interpretation of them.

    I, however, believe that their biggest drawback is the lack of experience and depth when analyzing problems alongside too little time

    Fine, but...

    but you wipe them of the table because "they are not interesting enough and I have nothing to learn from them"

    ...there you go again inventing thoughts for me to have.

    When you do enlighten us with your opinion, it is usually done in a arrogant way without the slightest of knowledge about the people involved (except their posts, that can often be misunderstood).

    Now you've summed things up very nicely: all anyone has are the posts on the forum which can indeed be misunderstood. Anything further than that is just the readers opinion. This is why, if one wishes to be understood as one wishes, it is essential to consider those posts carefully to ensure that they convey what one wants. Slap dash or ludicrous posts will not win one any credibility, and if one worries about things like credibility on internet forums then one is unlikely to enjoy the consequences of making those posts. Interestingly enough credibility seems to be very important to some posters yet their posts just become weirder and weirder - something of an oddity, do you not think?

    This approach is a recipe for a limited and insular existence.

    Seems to work for me...!

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  • You see, Jack, this is the embodiment of some people's problem with you.

    I'm afraid not, what follows the above sentence is actually your opinion.

    You seem to think that the "newbies and the young chaps" and the "lunatic fringe" (these were your own words, yes?)

    Yes, those are my words but...

    do not have anything to contribute, ergo deserve to be ignored.

    ...that is your interpretation of them.

    I, however, believe that their biggest drawback is the lack of experience and depth when analyzing problems alongside too little time

    Fine, but...

    but you wipe them of the table because "they are not interesting enough and I have nothing to learn from them"

    ...there you go again inventing thoughts for me to have.

    When you do enlighten us with your opinion, it is usually done in a arrogant way without the slightest of knowledge about the people involved (except their posts, that can often be misunderstood).

    Now you've summed things up very nicely: all anyone has are the posts on the forum which can indeed be misunderstood. Anything further than that is just the readers opinion. This is why, if one wishes to be understood as one wishes, it is essential to consider those posts carefully to ensure that they convey what one wants. Slap dash or ludicrous posts will not win one any credibility, and if one worries about things like credibility on internet forums then one is unlikely to enjoy the consequences of making those posts. Interestingly enough credibility seems to be very important to some posters yet their posts just become weirder and weirder - something of an oddity, do you not think?

    This approach is a recipe for a limited and insular existence.

    Seems to work for me...!

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