Re: '99 Honda Civic Re-do (need product advice)

On Mar 10, 10:18 am, "Hube...@xxxxxxxxx" <Hube...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...i honestly didnt know that you guys were that knoweledgable or had been
in it for this long...

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but "Should it really matter
how long we've been into car audio?"

Shouldn't the merits of one's argument be of primary importance? That
is to say, if the argument is presented clearly, logically, is well
thought-out and is supported by the laws of physics, does it really
matter of the person doing the posting is 14 years old 34 (or in
Eddie's case, 64)? In my opinion, that's one of the strengths of the
abstraction that USENET (and the Internet in general) provides--it
encourages people to focus more on the argument at hand rather than on
the presenter (provided the presenter has a reasonable grasp of the
language and can spell :-); it prevents us from making judgements
about the presenter's argument based upon his age ("He's just a
kid...what does he know?") or physcial appearance ("He's nothing but a
dumb jock basketball player--how could he possibly know how to tune an
audio system?").

If I may be so bold as to offer some unsolicited fatherly-type advice,
as a self-described "newb," you would do well to approach your new
hobby with more curiosity and a willingness to learn. There's nothing
wrong with being wrong (nobody's perfect, of course), but part of
wisdom is knowing when you know and knowing when you don't know.
Wisdom says that when you know, you teach those who will listen; and
when you don't know, you listen to those who are trying to teach.
That's not to say, of course, that you turn off your brain and just
accept everything fed to you--of course not, you should always think
critically and ask questions when you don't understand--but arguing
from a lack of experience will almost always get you into trouble.
Note that this is not to say that the person from whom you can learn
something is somehow fundamentally superior to you--if we hopped over
to a different newsgroup, we may quickly find the student trading
places with the master (there are plenty of other NG's I could visit
where I wouldn't be able to do more than introduce myself :-).

...but anyways where im goin with this is just
weanted to say sorry for the little tiff we had earlier

No blood, no foul. I'll not hold it against you. I'm actually
impressed by this--it takes muchos cajones to swallow one's pride and
admit fault...especially in public like this.

it
honestly got me pretty pissed off cause i dont like to be called out
on stuff but i figure it happens you know?

Hopefully as we get older, it happens less and less. :-)

-dan


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