Re: notifying particular thread to wake up.

On Oct 12, 11:24 pm, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"I'm right, and you know I'm right, and you're just being mean to me."
Pretty weak stuff.

What's weak here is your pitiable attempt to glorify your behavior
when indeed, at base, it's just you "being mean to me". Clothed as it
is in long words and excessive put-on-airs of nobility of purpose,
it's like dressing a small child in a fancy suit to deliver an
important speech ... one whose lisp and three-foot stature can't be
concealed by these measures.

You're a silly, pointless little twerp. On about your business now.

For many of us, spending twenty or thirty bucks to buy a book that'll make
us more productive is money well spent and quickly repaid, and far more
efficient than searching web pages to find a fact here and a fact there.

You're entitled to your opinion. And people are entitled to the chance
to make an *informed* decision of whether to buy something or not.
Being misled (including purely by omission) into believing it is the
*only* alternative is bad. You cannot in all reason disagree with that
statement.

I own the JLS, even though it's free online, because I can write in it and
mark the pages that are most important to me.

How silly. You could have downloaded it in a form such as HTML or
plain text and "write in" that using Notepad. Or print out your own
copy and scribble in it with pen. But it was your money to waste, and
therefore your choice.

You have a horror of spending money.

You misunderstand me. I will spend money, sometimes quite a lot of it,
but not needlessly when there's a cheaper alternative.

I do have a strong disdain for people that mislead other people,
including by conspicuous omission as well as by directly lying to
them, and I do have a strong disdain for advertising, the more so when
it is in disguise. I dislike deceptive TV ads that start with a "news
break" fanfare or similarly; there seems to be a lot of that going
around lately. (One uses a near-identical copy of the fanfare used for
a common network's news flashes, news flashes that also occur during
commercial breaks. Another used to run regularly and started with one
of those little snippets of guitar tune that announce scene changes or
resumption from ads on the show Seinfeld, but has since disappeared,
and good riddance. Even though I don't watch Seinfeld that one still
deceptively grabbed my attention when it ran.) I disdain web ads
disguised as dialog boxes, especially urgent-looking error messages,
and "fake popups" that aren't genuine new windows and entice people to
click an "x" that actually is just part of an ad graphic, and
therefore generates a revenue-producing clickthrough for the
advertising site.

And I dislike "informative" usenet posts that promise someone
information on their question at a given URL, and all that's actually
at that URL is a sales pitch.

That it's targeted doesn't change anything materially as far as I am
concerned. A relevant ad is still an ad, and if it's masquerading as
something else, it's still a deceptive ad.

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