On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Tony Abernethy <tony@servasoftware.com> wrote:
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> Donald Allen wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen
>> <donaldcallen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks for the compliment, but I'm a *lot* older than nine.
>> >
>> > Yet you still believe that it's ok for guests to tell the hosts how
>> to
>> > behave in their home.
>>
>> Your analogy doesn't go far enough. Better: guests in a home being
>> asked for contributions and also being insulted, both by the hosts.
>>
>> > Amazing. What culture are you from?
>>
>> One that values civility.
> That means that you prefer systems that can do anything wrong just
> as long as they talk nice to you.
> Me, I prefer systems that actually work, and a wee bit of seeming
> rudeness is a very small price to pay.

So you believe civility and correctness are mutually exclusive? Interesting.