-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you Marc, couldn't have sad it better my self. Now let the flame wars begin again about top vs. bottom posting. I'm normally a bottom poster, but am trying to convert.
- From another 60 something old fart! On 08/16/2012 12:55 PM, Marc Grober wrote: > Give it a rest. > > I am 60. I know what an RFQ and what an RFC is. I know what NATO is > and what a BFF is, lol..... I know where I can go to find > acronyms because I spent the time to go look. And if someone > references zotero, instead of asking a dozen times what it is, I > can spend two seconds finding out for myself. The same applies with > respect to AOO, which one could find, knowing the context, in 15 > seconds..... And I know that no matter what term I might use on > this list, someone will argue that they want to know what the term > means and eventually that I used the term inappropriately. > > Like "Engineering", for example. Let's argue about what an engineer > is. The neighbor kid thinks an engineer is someone who runs a > train. Someone want to argue that? I think the Roman Army was > staffed with engineers. Someone is going to tell me I am mistaken > because Roman army did ENGineering, not engiNEERing? SOmeone else > wants to suggest that today engineers are "Scientists"? Not > according to the spokesman for the Higgs Boson team, lol.... > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/08/mars-rover-should-not-get-so-much-attention-say-higgs-boson-scientists.html > > , rofl..... but, come on, this is a grgeat place to discuss anything > other than LibreOffice! > > I apologize if I appear rude (yes, I am aware of the Latin root > and would like to spend some considerable time on this list > discussing the use of "rude" as meaning impolite, as opposed to > unlearned, but think doing that in a new thread would be > preferable, though we could argue about the appropriateness of a > new thread to accomplish same here for a bit), but I have a burr > under my saddle, as it were, and it seems to me if one is going to > chew some butt, one might as well chew as much butt as one can > chew.... kind of a how much wood can a wood chuck chuck thing..... > (no, this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Ti9xCX_M - has > nothing to do with it) > > If one looks at the bandwidth on this list I think one would note, > on a regular basis, that a substantial portion is spent arguing > over communication style (as is the case with this epistle.) > > Give it a rest. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQLUilAAoJEIefqZ0kni1duLgQAKVVIzgZGypxhhsFhGns3xYZ b1whZRyjOAGn7Gbzs3mwOYe0Jv2fPnMrd+6K1bBBd8Ew4SRGKxZD8N0QcM1qcOQH pfMatbOwEhD3VwnyOLVYTjlIfpk2zD2UQGOn9b5A/3xz+JCBLbGWeH6NY491vGWH flVRLNhUWUNneBWMfmoSHMWcnPjtZTbgdZb7/uXZE0/K851JZxxahdBhb6ISGaFu rTlQJwunJMOtNdv9MD97sjyz7bto2aRaKMfDBINJF6eTJJUB5N+SjK1d1010YufA DJ5zeSQrqfxeU/i75t6iuxHkZljwNTTaIbczJ2ofnIyuF8YMAT9dEJJy+5KaGL6X 0pxZjOaOC7lf3CydaMfQjhE6XyqkRBwQZHsoQBn6lBbAERgm2n0Obm4L4A/XpLhy FsNMomDksEYTbf1QFWHeN/bQhpNI8NQHdvDvFkPW3oBKO+5Km9MVxNORPsHjyUwy f7VA/Oyq6y3YU6Jsuc1dd3HYQVRTDltVRzfuWFlJtAEmH//Mblf6586BirqdWfgT e6ic49kiDLmapSqbS30XcIKx5iPkhQI/1Pek2aLCLGeGGZNBBlcck7EExclyJEix kEgSty3waUuBqjR1K0pEnqCVH5yRw5ufvt0sVbJSIIBESpFSvOK/urIdMwvueJJ2 ROV/eEwzBx6OSdl51uv3 =+Z53 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
