Re: OS X compile

George Smith wrote:

Sherman Pendley wrote:

If you're not Neo

I'm not. And leave that poor eohippus alone -- he's already dead!

I don't think he was saying you were (are, whatever).

I think he was pointing out an additional way in which you are behaving
like him.

Personally, I don't think you're him; not only has he posted responses
to you (and self-conversation is a type of trolling I've not seen him
engage in), you seem consistently more (voluble? not quite... "verbally
facile" is more like it; there is a word for what I'm after, but I don't
quite remember it) than I've almost ever seen him be.

You do, however, seem to have (or have adopted) at least one - possibly
more - of his more unpleasant behaviours. Even if you are not him -
which, as I've said, I think you are not - behaving badly in the same
ways he does is going to leave you with just as little welcome as he
has.

For the record, I for one find the specific behaviour you seem to have
adopted - a variation on his "none of the nasty things" cut-and-paste
kneejerk reaction - to be, by itself and for itself, both blatantly
offensive and exceedingly rude. (I have encountered such responses in
away-from-the-screen Real Life, and found them even more offensive there
than I do here.) In extreme circumstances, doing something like that
*once* to cut off a conversation which plainly is going nowhere good
might be acceptable. Doing it routinely and on an ongoing basis, and
*not* cutting off the conversation when it continues to go nowhere good,
is very much not so, and becomes an offense in itself.

If you are going to repeatedly give offense - by that means or any
other, intentionally or otherwise - you should not be surprised when
people react as if they are offended.

--
The Wanderer

Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
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