Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

In article <oMYch.34202$Id5.1020793@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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In article <%wZbh.39211$ed6.1326352@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ snip ]

If you really want to challenge your anger management skills, lurk in
comp.os.linux.advocacy until someone makes the claim that it's impossible to
use a Microsoft OS for more than a month without seeing a blue screen (and
it WILL happen eventually -- there are trolls lurking there too), and post a
reply saying that's not true, or that your experience differs. You'll get
into a pretty wild "debate". However, you'd probably be contributing to the
provokation of a flamewar, which may or may not be against your ethics.

Yeah. Apparently I can't always resist the temptation to participate
in -- well, *is* this a flamear? -- but it doesn't seem like the
best kind of post to be adding to my, um, permanent record.

Funny you should mention c.o.l.a., though. If I remember right,
for a while I did subscribe to that group, but eventually I decided
the signal-to-noise ratio was too low, and the noise wasn't even
particularly entertaining. I do still subscribe to another few
comp.os.linux groups, and I find that the browsing experience is
enhanced by killfiling all crossposts to c.o.l.a.

[ snip ]

I'm not so sure that people can really control the initial flare of
anger in response to perceived insults. I also am no expert, but
my impression is that emotions aren't easily subjected to conscious
control.

I think experiencing emotions is like biting your fingernails: Initially
done subconciously, but you can learn to consciously stop. I actually
believe that you can't control your own thoughts (and thus people do not
have free will), but that's an entirely different topic: In as much as you
can control your own thoughts, you can control your emotions. Like biting
your nails, sometimes you'll get angry and only later notice that you're
angry. Once you notice this, (disregarding the free will issue), it is
entirely within your power to choose to stop being angry, just like it is
entirely within your power to choose to stop biting your nails. The only
issue is that sometimes people *don't* want to stop being angry.

You know, I think you might have a point here -- that you might not
have a choice about the initial reaction, but you do get to choose
whether you stay in that state or find a more pleasant or useful one.


[ snip -- interesting stuff, but we really are off-topic .... ]

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B. L. Massingill
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