Re: (OT) Re: "claim", etc. (was Re: C Standard Regarding Null Pointer Dereferencing)

In article <de0a38c7-c515-496c-b0dc-aaab4ff7e7ee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 8, 4:36 am, Keith Thompson <ks...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
c...@xxxxxxxx (Richard Harter) writes:
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:53:24 -0700, Keith Thompson
<ks...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

A large part of the reason we participate here is, frankly, to
explain to people why they're wrong.

We!!???  You certainly don't speak for me, and I dare say you
don't speak for many others.

[snip]

Ok, fair enough.

And we probably agree more than is implied by what I wrote above;
I was emphasizing one particular point because of the immediate
context.

(Incidentally, teaching doesn't apply just to newbies.  I've learned
plenty of things here myself, not infrequently as a result of being
told I was wrong about something.)

One searches in vain for evidence of this, Kiki. You, Seebach and
Heathfield say that you admit when you're wrong, but only on narrow
technical points when you agree with the critic. You are deaf to
people who ask you to admit that it's wrong to use "troll" like Hitler
used "Jew".

As you note, it is part of their game to say things like "I've been
wrong myself on occasion", but of course:
1) It's never about anything important (as you say, narrow technical
points at best). They never admit to their real faults.
2) It is only done when the "accuser" is in the buddy circle.

And, yes, these are all the standard attributes of survival in the
modern corporate world. Particularly, the first one - that is,
cultivate a reputation of being willing to admit you're wrong, but never
actually do so (in any way that matters).

--
"The anti-regulation business ethos is based on the charmingly naive notion
that people will not do unspeakable things for money." - Dana Carpender

Quoted by Paul Ciszek (pciszek at panix dot com). But what I want to know
is why is this diet/low-carb food author doing making pithy political/economic
statements?

But the above quote is dead-on, because, the thing is - business in one
breath tells us they don't need to be regulated (that they can morally
self-regulate), then in the next breath tells us that corporations are
amoral entities which have no obligations to anyone except their officers
and shareholders, then in the next breath they tell us they don't need to be
regulated (that they can morally self-regulate) ...

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