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Larry Elmore
Oh, at least unlike the others, you admit that you read it...I'm beginning to warm to you a little...I don't mind "awkward" or "contrary", so long as it's honest with it...you can always talk to "honest"...the other carp's not worth the effort even engaging, typically ;)
Yeah, I could have made "the point" in that space...
Alan Balmer At the risk of "pantomime", I do not confuse it at all... But you expertly and prefectly demonstrate my point in a nutshell...so, this serves...
bah Oh, right...sorry...as you're making no fracking sense whatsoever, in any regard, it's quite true that I didn't understand your accusation entirely... Well, that's even easier...
But I could NOT have covered the "reasoning" behind it in that same space...I do NOT simply state a point - never...sorry - but also provide the reasoning behind it...I do NOT expect a single person to accept a single thing I ever say simply because "Beth says so"...indeed, such a notion of "blind acceptance" is entirely what I write at such great length in opposition to...the very notion seriously sends a shiver down my spine merely contemplating...
"As I would not be a slave, so I shall not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." President Abraham Lincoln
I will NOT take the position of "authority", just "barking orders" at everyone else for them to blindly accept...I would not tolerate such behaviour from others, so I cannot engage in it myself with good conscience either...just as ol' Uncle Abe says there...
As such, I cannot simply state "you must believe this...accept what I say blindly...end of"...no, each opinion carries with it the reasoning for it...the explanation of why I think it's correct...
From this information, you're able to judge whether I've got a point...or whether I'm just barking insane and should be ignored...
A "choice" is not a choice unless it's an INFORMED choice...
Just go read risks.digest for another opinion. I depend on software that start the engine of my car, control lights and...
In the end, it's as simple as that...
To use a political metaphor: You're not going to (or, at least, you shouldn't) vote for me, without knowing my policies - the reasoning behind them, the "objectives" they are there to serve to achieve - and how I propose funding and implementing those policies...
You, by the way, can fully choose not to care and not to listen...but I am obligated - duty-bound - to offer nonetheless...I erode "democracy" itself by engaging - even showing an ounce of credence to - "soundbite politics", if you will...
You do not have to listen...but I must talk...or I'd be guilty of perpertrating an injustice...one that I refuse to be a party to...
It's a matter of principle...of course, in this age of disbelief at everything, someone adhering to principle is automatically "threatening"...fine, that is the situation, I must accept that is the case...but this does not mean - cannot mean - the abandonment of those principles...nay, on the contrary, as I was saying before, in times of trouble, principle is more important than ever...
When all around is chaos, your own "order" becomes more important than ever...
"One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that 'mother' gives you Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice: When she's ten feet tall...
And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call
To call Alice: When she was just small...
When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice: I think she'll know...
When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's 'off with 'er 'ead'
Remember what the doormouse said: 'Feed your Head!! Feed your Head!!'"
"White Rabbit", Jefferson Airplane
This buttertion has been made before, amusingly...
I guess it's my name...after all, "Eliza" - "Beth"...yes, that would be witty, were I some "artificial intelligence robot"...and this all a grand "hoax" of some kind...
You're just "covering all angles", in case someone's about to jump out and shout "you're on Candid Camera!!", eh?
Unfortunately, nothing so grand, I'm afraid...indeed, my name has the more Gallic spelling with an "s", not a "z"...which kind of spoils that hypothesis...
But, fair play...you're on-the-ball to be even thinking in such terms...I definitely approve of that kind of "awareness" and "lateral thinking"...
But, no...you're not on a "Candid Camera"...well, so far as I know, anyway...
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No, ironically, I'm very much "anti-bloatware"...
I don't know...perhaps it's, therefore, some kind of "compensationary" thing? Take the "bloat" out of the programs and put it into the "documentation" instead! After all, no-one ever reads "manuals", so it's not as if it matters, yes? ;)
And as for working for Microsoft?!? I don't know what I could have done - long postings notwithstanding - to deserve such a terrible insult...and, no, my surname is NOT "Faust", I butture you, in case you're still thinking this is some kind of "Candid Camera" hoax...
Beth :)