In most cases I'd agree with you but once we get into an argument of point vs. point, research is needed. If person 1 says that the Taliban leadership is made up of the tribal leadership and person 2 says that the Taliban leadership is outside of the tribal leadership, then someone should look up what the Taliban actually is and how its structured.
Fun and muffins are great and that's what the list is for but you KNOW that arguments happen. We have people with strong ideas/ideals and they butt heads. (ick. That sounds bad. Fun is singular and muffins is plural so "fun and muffins" is great or are great. Arg, I'm beset by my own words!) If we were talking about an international summit of scientists...i'd agree > with you. But this is an informal list of programmers....many of us use > this > forum as a place to think out loud, or to help us formulate opinions or > test > them for the first time. In this setting, I don't have any problem with > ideas or opinions that are anecdotal, unresearched, or otherwise > incomplete. > > > Now that all changes if you position yourself as an expert before you offer > your opinion...then you'd better know what you are talking about. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
