OFFTOPIC: Liam wants to argue (Was RE: A task-centric desktop...)
Cybe R. Wizard
cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 21 22:40:22 UTC 2011
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:29:38 -0600
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:07:32 -0600
> "W. Scott Lockwood III" <vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> +1
>
> You may have noticed that, throughout all of history, it has been the
> dissatisfied who were responsible for all of progress, whether
> directly or indirectly. Dissent is /not always/ whining.
>
> ...although it certainly /can/ be.
>
> I suggest that, if you are hearing valid (to someone, anyone) dissent
> as whining, you are coloring your opinion with your own .. feelings
> about the matter. (didn't want to re-use the word, "opinion")
>
> Cybe
I'm sorry to see (and have to say) that I have been guilty of replying
to both Scott and Liam in this single quoted reply. I must be somewhere
else in my head and now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming.
Cybe R. Wizard
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