OFFTOPIC: Liam wants to argue (Was RE: A task-centric desktop...)

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Liam Proven
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Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Liam wants to argue (Was RE: A task-centric
desktop...)

> Nope. It's my living, among other things. I've given you a link to a
published article in which I explained my views at length, some 4y ago.

Being in print doesn't make you right. :-) I read all the provided links. I
didn't comment on them because I rather felt they backed up my argument.
Lots of talk of threats. Very little to no meat.

> Calling someone a "stick-in-the-mud" is insulting now, is it?
> Seriously? I am incredulous. Perhaps this is one of those
British-versus-American things again.

Specifically, the claims of "shouting" and "whining" are rude, and
insulting. Perhaps they aren't over there. If it wasn't your intent to use
those terms pejoratively (which, ok, I don't see how, but whatever) then I
withdraw my objection.

> They are not insults and not pejorative. I am not saying people are too
stupid or something.
> Words such as "inflexible" are honest representations of my impressions of
people who cannot
> adapt to something as trivial as a slightly-rearranged desktop. I stand by
my comments, or I 
> wouldn't have made them.

Shouting and Whining. Whining more specifically. The implication that I was
shouting was kind of crass, but calling me and everyone else who is vocal
whiners is, in my opinion, insulting and a pejorative use of the word.