On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:49, Chad Perrin wrote:
> the fact that some of us just aren't interested in trying Fedora
> out for ourselves any time soon.
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Then do _not_ comment on it. That's the problem, people talk about what
> they do _not_ have first-hand experience with.
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:26, Chad Perrin wrote:
> How the fu . . . heck do you expect people to learn about things they
> don't know about if they're not willing to examine it, discuss it, now
> and then?
Because you are _not_ "willing to examine it, discuss it, now and then."
If you were, you wouldn't say, "the fact that some of us just aren't
interested in trying Fedora out for ourselves any time soon."
Experience is the ultimate knowledge. Unfortunately, I'm tired of being
in the minority, and assumed to be wrong because I'm not in the majority
who simply "learn about things they don't know about" through such
discussions like this.
And this wasn't even a good example of how bad it can get (I could give
some really good ones). But it did show some of the same symptoms.
> Shut the hell up and stop being pissy just because not everybody in the
> world is glued to your ass.
If "being pissy" is because I get frustrated when I'm trying to talk
about something I have personal experience with, and others don't and
they seem to be in the majority of "sharing non-experience," then I'm
_guilty_ as charged!
Get over your ego and just admit that you need to stop commenting on
what you don't know.
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