An apology is required from me

[Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I]

On 06/23/2012 11:30 AM, Daniel wrote:
> On 06/23/2012 07:59 AM, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
>
>> Someone claimed that they found gnome bashing tiresome.  Your response
>> was they should complain to the Gnome developers.
>
> No, that wasn't my response.
>
> If one were going to kill a snake, then I would indeed _suggest_ 
> smashing its head rather than its tail, but all that presupposes that 
> one should try to kill the snake.
>
>> It seemed sort of
>> analogous to ordering a pizza in a restaurant and realizing it has
>> anchovies on it.  You hate anchovies, but it was clearly labeled as
>> coming with anchovies.  It seems at this point you could choose to
>> take the anchovies off and eat the rest of the pizza.  Or you could
>> talk to the wait staff about resolving the issue.  Or you could
>> complain loudly to all the other patrons, and when the other patrons
>> express displeasure with your actions, tell them that it is really the
>> restaurant's fault.
>
> Well, here's a rather better analogy, reworking yours:
>
> We have a bunch of people who have been going to a pizza restaurant 
> for some years.  And they find the pizza to be quite excellent.  Then, 
> suddenly, it is changed.  The old sort of pizza is removed from the 
> menu, and it is replaced with a new one that a contingent of 
> "regulars" loathe.  So _they_ -- not just one hypothetical patron but 
> a bloc of them -- begin complaining not only to the staff, but on 
> Yelp! but in letters-to-the-editor.  And people who want to read 
> _different_ letters-to-the-editor become annoyed, and start 
> complaining about the complaining.
>
> (Note: You don't have to read this mailing list to use Gnome, nor to 
> Fedora with or without Gnome.  Analogically speaking, the complaining 
> is _not_ in the restaurant.)
>
> Of course, the restaurant has a right to change its offerings, but the 
> complainers have a right to complain.  And the people complaining 
> about the complaining -- well, shouldn't they know what they got 
> themselves in for in reading other people's comments?
>
> One answer to the people who don't like the pizza is to tell them to 
> go somewhere else (even if there's no other pizza place in town).  One 
> answer to the people who don't like the complaints about the pizza is 
> to tell them to stop reading Yelp! and the letters-to-the-editor (even 
> if there's nothing else to read).  And these answers aren't either/or; 
> one could embrace each.
>
> And one could embrace both of these answers, while suggesting that 
> someone complaining about the complaining might do better to try to 
> smash the head of a snake than to attempt to stomp on its tail.
>
>> This third option is what I find astonishingly arrogant.
>
> Well, your attempts to interpret my psychology are grossly incompetent.

Stunned silence..#headspinnig!

You my friend would give Dr. Sigmund Freud chills at night and 
goosebumps!.....LoL!


EGO II