Re: Java 7 features

On Aug 4, 1:38 am, nebulou...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm not talking about people disagreeing with my views. I'm talking
about people calling me a name or otherwise impugning me, personally,
the author of those views, rather than merely taking issue with the
views themselves.
There's nothing that can stop people from doing that. Man up and don't
be so sensitive.


I'm not. Another one just flared up. You want to know how?
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

And what in the name of the rings of Saturn has you accusing ME of
starting fights, when examples like this one make it clear that some
other guy threw down a gauntlet and challenged me first, rather than
the other way around?
Your reasoning is seriously screwed up. Nobody is throwing down a
gauntlet and challenging you; you are taking a post on the Internet as
much, much more than it is.

This time the responder is being an arsehole and I call them on it.
That is your right. But I don't know what you expect to accomplish by
it. You definitely aren't going to change the behavior of Usenet.
You'll be better off when you just start ignoring it.

[assortment of unsympathetic and content-free crap deleted]
Which conveniently excuses you from coming up with a response to any
of it.

I'm responding in my own defense. What the *** do you expect me to do
-- simply ignore the attack, and leave future readers of the archived
thread to see only one side of the story and, indeed, only the side
that is hostile to me?
Or you could ignore the post in question and demonstrate that you are
mature enough to do so?

Yeah, right. That's handing my attacker victory on a silver platter!
What "victory"!!?? Again you make more out of an Internet argument
than it ever will be.

Sure you can. It's called a killfile. Learn to use it.
Except that I am using Google Groups like you. The difference is I
don't whine and complain when it gives me trouble.


Then why, in the past, have you publicly accused me of being a know-
nothing who can't get anything right?
Unless you can provide me with a citation where I made such a broad
assumption, you are full of ***. Before you go saying "I won't do
your dirty work for you!!!!!11111one" remember that you are making the
accusation so it's up to you to back it up.

It's stuff that suggests I'm an idiot, e.g. "Only a fool believes
that!", that riles me up. Stick to debating the actual topic, not the
debaters themselves. This is comp.lang.java.programmer, not
alt.twisteds.iq.speculation.d; I am not up for debate -- Java is.
If you don't like what's being discussed here, you can leave or stop
fueling the fire.

I could ask that of a bunch of people here. Starting with you.
The difference is I don't care. You are the one that hypes it up like
it's the ultimate goal or else your life is over. Me, I don't give a
crap either way

there are several documented cases
of people losing their jobs and/or finding it hard to get a job when a
rumor about either their personal life or their competency in their
field got going and spiraled out of control.
Show me such a documented case. Put up or shut up.


Expecting people to not criticize you on a Usenet group is simply
unrealistic.
Why?
Because it's Usenet. If you've been around for as long as you suggest,
you'd realize this.

I see no logical reason why people cannot confine any criticism
to matters impersonal, such as code under debate.
There really is no logical reason. People are just assholes. But, that
includes you as much as it does me.

Stick to discussing the Java.
I will when you do.

[calls me names]
Aw, did I hurt your feelings again?


And you still seem incapable of being 100% civil. I wonder if it's not
even voluntary?
Completely voluntary. Sometimes it can be entertaining to feed a
Usenet troll.


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