From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 8 0:19:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D4137B419 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.16] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fB88JPY07408; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:19:26 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <01c601c17fb9$0c7cd730$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15377.37214.213789.306335@guru.mired.org><00c901c17f9f$e80a95e0$0a000 00a@atkielski.com><20011208043931.GA27716@hades.hell.gr><00fd01c17fa9$ ccf20c20$0a00000a@atkielski.com><20011208053552.GC28300@hades.hell.gr> <013201c17fab$fc6e3260$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.44640.194488.100103@guru.mired.org> <016801c17faf$6a977640$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <01c601c17fb9$0c7cd730$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:16:56 +0100 To: "Anthony Atkielski" , "Mike Meyer" , "Brad Knowles" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:22 AM +0100 on 2001/12/08, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> So, by your definition, an IT specialist can't >> have a desktop? > > That's not what I said. I said that I don't have any generic definition of > a IT specialist's environment. Well, since you're waving your private parts around in the faces of a whole collection of IT specialists, I suggest that this is a definition that you desperately need before you can possibly continue your quest to eliminate everything from this world that is not Microsoft, and before you can eliminate all the people from this world that would do such dangerous things as to actually ask what people want to do with their machine and why, before recommending an OS for them to use. >> That's because most abstract concepts have >> problems when you try to forcibly apply them in >> totally inappropriate ways to real-world >> situations. > > I wasn't trying to do that. I was trying to illustrate a point. That may not have been what you were consciously trying to do, but that was precisely the end result of your sad attempt. -- Brad Knowles, H4sICIFgXzsCA2RtYS1zaWcAPVHLbsMwDDvXX0H0kkvbfxiwVw8FCmzAzqqj1F4dy7CdBfn7 Kc6wmyGRFEnvvxiWQoCvqI7RSWTcfGXQNqCUAnfIU+AT8OZ/GCNjRVlH0bKpguJkxiITZqes MxwpSucyDJzXxQEUe/ihgXqJXUXwD9ajB6NHonLmNrUSK9nacHQnH097szO74xFXqtlbT3il wMsBz5cnfCR5cEmci0Rj9u/jqBbPeES1I4PeFBXPUIT1XDSOuutFXylzrQvGyboWstCoQZyP dxX4dLx0eauFe1x9puhoi0Ao1omEJo+BZ6XLVNaVpWiKekxN0VK2VMpmAy+Bk7ZV4SO+p1L/ uErNRS/qH2iFU+iNOtbcmVt9N16lfF7tLv9FXNj8AiyNcOi1AQAA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message