12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
2:01 p.m.
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 1:34 PM PDT Fred Cisin wrote:
"There are three things I have learned never to
discuss with people:
religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." -Linus
(but not Torvalds. That's a RELIGION)
The actual adage was undoubtedly invented by someone that wanted to shut down legitimate
discussion. People don't want to be challenged, don't want to change (intrinsic in
that is to be shown they're wrong), don't want their ideas challenged by facts.
Let's just agree not to talk about Microsoft though, because they are like a god to
me.
12 Mar
12 Mar
4:05 p.m.
>"There are three things I have learned never
to discuss with people:
>religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." -Linus
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013,
Chris Tofu wrote:
The actual adage was undoubtedly invented by someone
that wanted to
shut down legitimate discussion. People don't want to be challenged,
don't want to change (intrinsic in that is to be shown they're wrong),
don't want their ideas challenged by facts.
No, it is an adage objecting the results when somebody changes the subject
to religion, politics, or The Great Pumpkin.
Let's just agree not to talk about Microsoft
though, because they are
like a god to me.
That seems like a reasonable place to draw the line.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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