Fw: Thin skins [Was: Restoration technique [Was: Re: Bay Area: IBM 4341 and HP3000]]

[Mike Stein]

Sorry; meant to send that privately.

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From: "Mike Stein" <mhs.stein at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Thin skins [Was: Restoration technique [Was: Re: Bay Area: IBM 
4341 and HP3000]]


> From: "Sean Caron" <scaron at umich.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Thin skins [Was: Restoration technique [Was: Re: Bay Area: 
> IBM 4341 and HP3000]]
>
>> You can read yourself all the threads and decide for yourself, if they 
>> were
>> being written to you, would you find them offensive?
>
> No.
>
> It is always *our* choice how to interpret and feel about things we read 
> and hear and whether to make the effort to understand rather than just 
> react.
>
> All Jay said is that his setup, collective experience etc. is perhaps more 
> suited to this sort of thing than yours but he welcomes you and anyone who 
> wants to add to the resources available to this community.
>
> What does offend me is your Straw Man arguments and name calling; Jay a 
> "bully" ?
>
> ---
> Description of Straw Man
>
> The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's 
> actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented 
> version of that position.
> ---
>
> 'nuff said.
>
> m