On 8/20/2010 8:02 PM, Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
On 8/20/2010 7:54 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
On 8/20/2010 7:37 PM, Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
On 8/20/2010 2:41 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
On 8/20/2010 11:54 AM, Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
On 8/20/2010 11:49 AM, Brian K. White wrote:
Hahaha welcome to the "utterly useless" discussion! I guess you never figured out that joining a discussion is about the dumbest possible way to end it. You make it stop be NOT participating in it. Except you can't "make" it stop. All you can do is not add your own interest and wait and hope for others to eventually do the same.
Posting "You all shut up about this topic I don't happen to care about." is not only inexcusably rude and offensive, it's also _participating_ and _contributing_ to the very thing you profess to be utterly useless.
And of course it also causes responses like mine which are surely even less interesting to you. Pretty idiotic tactic all around I'd say. Yes this post of mine adds to the thread too but the difference is I have no problem with this thread so there is nothing hypocritical or ironic at all about that.
I, as neither a ked3 nor kde4 nor gnome user, am actually reasonably interested in the various points being raised in this discussion. Not all are actually very interesting, but the few that are, are, and the rest don't cost me anything to ignore. To me it's not about KDE3 or 4. To me it's about watching the world at large painfully agonizingly slowly accrete wisdom. Or fail to. so are you not doing the same by commenting on the comment? I've already commented, thus already in for the haul. But you're just telling a guy what he did wrong, but doing the same thing.
What exactly am I doing wrong or the same? Better yet, why are you trying to remark upon post you didn't even read? If you had read what I said, you'd have read the part where I already answered predictable responses like yours from people who have no acuity. To wit: I do not dislike this thread, and so it's not the least illogical for me to participate in it. I'm not the one who called it useless.
you posted " You make it stop be NOT participating in it. Except you can't "make" it stop. All you can do is not add your own interest and wait and hope for others to eventually do the same."
Yet you yourself are participating. You're telling the way to make the thread die is to not comment at all to the thread, yet you commented to it yourself. Had you send him a private email, it'd be different. Because you would not be contributing to the thread. And it's awfully naive of you to assume I didn't read your post. I've followed this thread closely myself. So instructing a person on how to let it die by yourself doing the opposite is quite hypocritical.
Where in any of my post did I say anything about wanting the thread to stop? I never did. I neither want it to stop nor want it to continue particularly. I want it to do whatever it will do. So where is the irony in my posting to a thread that I never expressed any dislike of?
Follow along now. You, yes you Mister Brian K. White, are explaining to a person how to make a thread stop. You're explanation is to not contribute to the thread. Are you with me? So you yourself contributed to the thread, thus going against your very own explanation of how to make the thread stop. I don't know where you read I said you wanted it stop, because in no place did I say or insinuate that.
So not only can't you read or comprehend my post, you can't even comprehend your own? Look up right in your own quote, you said "So you're doing the same by commenting on the comment?" See that? "you're doing the same" I didn't say that, you did. Ok well then, the same as what? Since what I had said before was "it's dumb to try to end a thread by joining it" that means that what you said is "It's just as dumb for you BKW to to try to end a thread by joining it." And thus ensues our own little off-off-off-topic nonsense, because, as I said, it's not dumb at all for me, because I have no particular feelings about this thread one way or the other. I'm perfectly fine with it and am not trying to end it. This has absolutely no bearing on or relation at all with my comment to the other person. He's the one who claims to hate the thread, and so it's only dumb for him to join it. So I ask again, what was your point? Or do you finally see that you had no point? Dazzle me with the point which exists and isn't logically broken, which I have missed. Or don't and stop trying to defend the indefensible. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org