He's just too damned skrawney! Vadar is HUGE and eminates power! Di Caprio eminates wimpdom! He might be a good actor but he is just too damned small and wimpy to play the man that becomes Darth Vadar.
Although I agree that one should be open-minded and open to new or controversial ideas, I must disagree with Mr. Katz and say that some people just need filtering. I equate this will the CNN movie critic Tartara. The guy is a blithering idiot and I know from experience that I do not need to hear anything he has to say because he is always wrong. Should I continue to torture myself by reading what he has to say or should I, with full knowledge and forethought, filter his ignorance from my world?
I do not know much about Mr. Katz but from this article I find him to be articulate and seemingly intelligent so he won't be removed from my sight just yet but if I find that he becomes a fountain of useless and wrong information, he might hit the moron filter pretty quick. I only have a limited amount of time in each day, 24 hours to be exact, and I must make decisions on how I am to spend those hours. Two of them are for sleep and that is final, so I only have 22 or so (depending on if it is finals week) to catch up with school work, play Quake II, check my email, read Slashdot, and go offline long enough to order a pizza. I cannot be slowed down by people I know to be morons. There is a reason we all called them "twit" filters in the old days of the local BBS.
Sometimes you get a feel for what people are going to say even before they say it and you know that if they hold true to previous patterns all you are going to do is kick yourself in the ass because you listened to them or read their stuff. If I were a writer, I would expect that not everyone agrees with my point of view, that they do not have time to be bothered by me or to have my opinions imposed upon them. So, in closing, filter me all you want, I expect that I will find an audience for my own rantings just by going off prozac and talking to the other people that live in my head.
I haven't figured this out yet. We bemoan and whine when someone patents software technology but when someone TRADEMARKS the term Open Source, we hail them as conquering heros and place them on pedistals, bowing down to them in awe. Why is that? Not flame-bait, I am genuinely curious.
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He's just too damned skrawney! Vadar is HUGE and eminates power! Di Caprio eminates wimpdom! He might be a good actor but he is just too damned small and wimpy to play the man that becomes Darth Vadar.
You let them take your guns, now they can do anything they want.
Although I agree that one should be open-minded and open to new or controversial ideas, I must disagree with Mr. Katz and say that some people just need filtering. I equate this will the CNN movie critic Tartara. The guy is a blithering idiot and I know from experience that I do not need to hear anything he has to say because he is always wrong. Should I continue to torture myself by reading what he has to say or should I, with full knowledge and forethought, filter his ignorance from my world?
I do not know much about Mr. Katz but from this article I find him to be articulate and seemingly intelligent so he won't be removed from my sight just yet but if I find that he becomes a fountain of useless and wrong information, he might hit the moron filter pretty quick. I only have a limited amount of time in each day, 24 hours to be exact, and I must make decisions on how I am to spend those hours. Two of them are for sleep and that is final, so I only have 22 or so (depending on if it is finals week) to catch up with school work, play Quake II, check my email, read Slashdot, and go offline long enough to order a pizza. I cannot be slowed down by people I know to be morons. There is a reason we all called them "twit" filters in the old days of the local BBS.
Sometimes you get a feel for what people are going to say even before they say it and you know that if they hold true to previous patterns all you are going to do is kick yourself in the ass because you listened to them or read their stuff. If I were a writer, I would expect that not everyone agrees with my point of view, that they do not have time to be bothered by me or to have my opinions imposed upon them. So, in closing, filter me all you want, I expect that I will find an audience for my own rantings just by going off prozac and talking to the other people that live in my head.
I haven't figured this out yet. We bemoan and whine when someone patents software technology but when someone TRADEMARKS the term Open Source, we hail them as conquering heros and place them on pedistals, bowing down to them in awe. Why is that? Not flame-bait, I am genuinely curious.
One of those little trueisms we learn when we are young. Sorta like: "You cannot baptize a cat."
Someone needs to make up T-shirt or something to give the winners.