Re: Is my CS instructor nuts?

In article <1150852304.400632.145000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In article <slrne9fc8h.277d.willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Willem <willem@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
blmblm wrote:
) <spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
) > <snip nilgewater>
) ...
) posters here. Comments such as the above, however, make me cringe.

Welcome to Nilgewater.
There's a reason this guy is in so many killfiles already.


Yes indeed. I've been following discussion between him and the
others here since -- hm, the first installment I remember had
a subject line mentioning the (US) "Data Quality Act", I think.
And then at some point I got curious about that "well-received"
book review, and went through Google's archives, and .... Well.

dot dot dot Well? A little sniff, a sort of well-bred shudder, which of
course relieves you of thought or the need to read. The negative
insinuation, in other word.

[ snip ]

The ellipsis was lazy, all right. I'll try again:

I don't claim that I read every word of every post in the long thread
that resulted from your posting the "well-received" book review.
But I claim that I made a good effort to read enough of them to get
a sense of the discussion, and to know that "well-received" is not a
very accurate description, unless your definition of "well-received"
is "generated a lot of responses, many of them negative."

[ snip ]

But I wasn't attempting a general critique; I just thought it might
be useful to have on record a reaction from a member of one of the
groups he seems to like to mention as being victimized. The lurkers
may support him in e-mail, but this (usually) lurker doesn't ....

So, how much are they paying you to be a poster child?

Paying me? They're supposed to be paying me?! Is *that* what that
e-mail from paypal.com in my mailbox has been about -- and I thought
it was just scams!

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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