culling the species

[William T Goodall]

On 18 May 2008, at 17:22, xponentrob wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Bell" <charlie at culturelist.org>
> To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <brin-l at mccmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: culling the species
>
>
>> He's not too rude, as you'd know if you'd bothered to pay attention.
>> He tries extremely hard, but he has trouble with understanding the  
>> way
>> e-mail programs quote, and manually quotes every post. If just one of
>> us lived nearby and could pop round and demonstrate stuff, jon would
>> find life much easier.
>
> I have my doubts about that.
> The program he uses for email by default quotes more or less  
> correctly.
> With all the help people have tried to give him over these last  
> months and
> he still does not quote in any regard as a respectable netizen, I am  
> left
> with little but suspicion. Specifically, that it is intentional.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by  
stupidity."

>
> Having been immersed elsewhere in all manner of trollery and  
> disingenuity, I
> have grown accustomed to recognizing the tricks that can be employed,
> technical or memetic. Months of  "I'm a clueless newbie, indulge me"  
> is
> pretty old at this point.

Seems a bit pointless since it just discourages me from trying to read  
his posts at all.

>
> I don't have a problem with what Jon has to say, after all it is  
> well within
> the realm of what we have seen before on this list and comes as no  
> surprise.
> But the claim that he cannot do a simple technical task makes me  
> want to say
> "TitsOrGTFO"

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from  
malice Maru


  "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product  
of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still  
primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." - Albert  
Einstein

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