Success in the information age means being able to search more data for useful stuff. To be successful and to learn more, you have to learn how to process more drivel and extract useful information.
I'm afraid I don't see the logical fallacy. Care to elaborate?
Quotes are easy to recognize; they're surrounded by quotation marks. I wasn't quoting.
My points, restated for your convenience: 1. Calling someone names can be insightful if people care about that someone, and if there isn't universal agreement about the point. 2. There's no contradiction between admiring RMS for the movement he started, and saying he is socially inept.
Are you saying this is not what I said before? Or that this is not in opposition to the post I was replying to?
Yes, calling someone an especially undersocialized nerd could in fact be insighful. Not if the someone is you or me, but say someone like RMS. Calling some random guy a religious whacko is nothing important, but when that guy is president of the US, yes a dissenting opinion is useful.
And speaking to heads of state and mafia dons isn't any indication of one's social eptness. Not that social niceties are important when you're the unwaivering center of a worldwide socio-political movement to protect individual freedoms.
Slashdot Mirror
You object to drivel. And yet you read slashdot.
Success in the information age means being able to search more data for useful stuff. To be successful and to learn more, you have to learn how to process more drivel and extract useful information.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCom munitieswithSo.html
:)) Now that I think about it, I prefer competence.
I'm afraid I don't see the logical fallacy. Care to elaborate?
Quotes are easy to recognize; they're surrounded by quotation marks. I wasn't quoting.
My points, restated for your convenience:
1. Calling someone names can be insightful if people care about that someone, and if there isn't universal agreement about the point.
2. There's no contradiction between admiring RMS for the movement he started, and saying he is socially inept.
Are you saying this is not what I said before? Or that this is not in opposition to the post I was replying to?
Yes, calling someone an especially undersocialized nerd could in fact be insighful. Not if the someone is you or me, but say someone like RMS. Calling some random guy a religious whacko is nothing important, but when that guy is president of the US, yes a dissenting opinion is useful.
And speaking to heads of state and mafia dons isn't any indication of one's social eptness. Not that social niceties are important when you're the unwaivering center of a worldwide socio-political movement to protect individual freedoms.