[SlugLUG] Help Me Choose

[cerise at armory.com]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:49:35PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> I'm very sorry, but you've just not been meriting sarcasm.  I have lint
> collections to sort, etc.  However, I'll see if there's room on my
> calendar, for next year.

   Yeah, it shows with how often you come back with these replies.  You've
obviously got sooooooo much else to do.
   I know, humor isn't for the small brained.  I really ought to lower myself
to your level and settle for monosyllabic grunts and pasted bits that're
supposed to pass for wit.  Still, I keep thinking that on some proud day,
you'll earn your upright posture and opposable thumb with a particular feat of
intellect.
   Really -- addition isn't that hard, Rick.  You can do it.
 
> Wow, "politics".  I hope you got film footage.  Should be a smash-hit.

   And instead of a "Oh, fuck.  I was pwned" or any interesting conversation
on the matter, you go back to your tactics of dismissiveness.  
   It must be really hard to live in a universe which crumbles if you're ever,
ever wrong.

> > Why not drive up to Seattle, WA?  
> 
> So, simply not willing to back up your knee-jerk assertions of
> dishonesty with money, when someone calls bullshit on them?  I _do_
> fully understand.  

   You have a very interesting take on this matter.  Let me diagram this one
for you.
1) I have a friend (believe it or not!)
2) Said friend has a deb box.
3) The deb box has a version of tar that came from deb maintainers.
   (with me so far?)
4) It has a version of tar on it which is broken in the prescribed manner (i.e.
   it doesn't take the Acdtrux commands without a hyphen).
5) Said server is in Seattle, WA.

   Now, in all honesty, I'd love *nothing* more than to find out that Debian
improved beyond this moronicity.  If your supposedly c&p'd session is to be
believe, then they have.
   However, that doesn't change that at least in this instance, I have a binary
which provably came from a deb package.  Since that functionality is in GNU
tar, has always been in GNU tar, and the vanilla version works just fine with
my command line, it's reasonable to assume that the damage was apparently
wrought by deb maintainers.
   So -- what all this comes down to is me telling you that Deb did this at 
some point in the past and it was moronic.  You're trying to tell me that I
ought to pay you $1000 for the 'privilege' of finding out that they grew out
of such childishness (a sort of irony given who I'm talking to here).  I 
countered that with the offer to drive up to Seattle, WA and see for yourself
that it did happen.
   This is the difference between you and me, Rick.  When someone questions my
claims, I reply with proof.  When your claims are questioned (as in your
rather suspect mispaste), you attempt to belittle and discredit them.
   Not that I expected anything less.  I just wonder why I don't reply in kind
from the get-go with you.

-Phil/CERisE