Re: Advice Please: Assembly Language Programming Book

From: Beth (spamtrap_at_crayne.org)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:17:43 +0000 (UTC)

Randy Howard wrote:
> spamtrap wrote:
> > I cannot agree. If you simply want an introduction to a subject
> > these kind of books serve that purpose well. Looking through
> > my bookshelf I have 2 books of a similiar theme "The Complete
> > Idiot's Guide to Calculus" and "The Complete Idiots Guide to
> > Billiards and Pool".
>
> I am sorry to hear that.

Ah, so "patronisation" is also within your elitist armoury too, eh?

"Ineffective humour", you say? "Look no further" is the phrase that springs
to mind...

Note the situation: spamtrap _HAS_ such books and thus _KNOWS_ of their
content, tone and effectiveness of their tutorials...his "review" is
_FACTUALLY BASED_ on direct and personal experience...Randy Howard claims
these too "abhorrent" to have even bothered to - ooh, you know - _FIND OUT_
what he's criticising before tearing it apart...then even going on to
attempt to "atomise" the "offending" title with wrathful anger...

This is what one could term a "phantom book review" in its most literal
sense...and it's certainly educational to note that, indeed, "the only
thing to fear is fear itself"...because those who NEVER bothered to even
_read_ to _factually appraise_ what they are criticising are always the
most, most venomous...tinged with almost "hatred" for their "target"...

How distinctly _IRRATIONAL_ that behaviour appears...

A critique based solely on "first impression"...hence, effectively
"prejudice" behind its "elitist" guise of "all-knowing"
omnipotence...garnished with no substance of any kind...flaring up with
venomous hatred for what is, after all, nothing more than a simple
introductory text...

I mean, it's a fracking book, for pity's sake...at worst, it is badly
written...wow! There's a "federal case", if one has ever heard of one,
indeed...I think NOT..."hunt down the witch author! Burn all 'opposing
views' on the Nazi-esque 'book bonfire' to warm us from the harsh
Winters!"...

How dare you abuse the English language by uttering the word "abhorrent"
for anything other than your own in-built prejudices?

Nonetheless, your "elitism" will fail...it always does...that "shock" will
be its own karmic "punishment"...you need not require any from anyone else,
as you shall perform those "rites" upon yourself better than any other
could ever muster...

It is a foundation principle of this and previous "civilisations":
EDUCATION IS FOR ALL WHO SEEK TO FIND IT...or perish its rotten heart by
its own ill-deeds...

Beth :|

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