On Thursday, April 16, 2015, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 April 2015 at 19:58, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> >> Bruno, I can go back as far as 2008 for such discussions with John Clark >> in my gmail archives about step 3... it's useless to continue to answer him >> (at least on your work, and surely on anything else), he will never accept >> anything, and will never go beyond that point, he doesn't want to have a >> genuine discussion... it will go back in circle again, he will mock your >> acronyms, he will say, he doesn't know what step 1,2 are, he will do biased >> comparisons, he will say it's stupid, or false or stupid again etc etc >> etc... you give him hours of your live that he doesn't deserve... >> >> Jeez, I had no idea. I'd have given up long ago if I was him... >
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