Silence is golden except on this list

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 19:37 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> I got a chuckle out of this interchange. It wouldn't be half as funny
> if I hadn't gotten the same grumpy response on the Feisty Ubuntu
> forum. Not being a Debian heavy, I asked a perfectly reasonable and
> simple (IMO) question about the reasons for packages being held back
> by apt-get, and I got basically the same response as you did, Ric. You
> d*mb sh*t, why are you running Feisty if you don't know what you are
> doing?
> 
> I've always been amazed by those who know so damn much that they can't
> relax and help those who haven't reached their own exalted state.

Well, our beloved Lonnie gets panged on so much with seemingly idiotic
questions for a living, it has to wear him out. Then you goto their site
and it seems some MS weasel is running it with a bunch of ads that
consume at least a third of the page, I'm sure Lonnie gets the
deer-in-the-headlights syndrome from all the craziness around him. I
don't see how he copes. Some jerk started a "nVidia SUCKS!" thread on
the Fedora Users list and man, was it on! 

That's when the crying towel gets thrown into the ring, when some guy,
after 20 years of being locked up, is still saying "But, I HAD to kill
him, don'tcha SEE? He was making me CRAZY!!" Even worse I may find
myself in -almost- total agreement. It would be funny if it weren't so
sad. No need to ask if it was worth it, as it's too late and serves no
purpose at that stage. 

Yup, I agree with whoever wrote that all the Anger Management and Proper
Assertiveness stuff needs to be taught in Elementary School. It's a
helluva lot more important that who chopped down the cherry tree, IMHO.
It's so much like programing a computer that I am surprised more geeks
don't get into it. It's certainly more fun. Ric