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[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Sun, April 19, 2009 23:25, jdow wrote:
*snip*

> Nonsense.

Noun

nonsense (plural nonsenses)

   1. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem
to have no meaning.
   2. An untrue statement.
          He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense.
   3. Something foolish.
          * 2008, "Nick Leeson has some lessons for this collapse",
Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 9, 2008
                and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow
backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers
dreamed up.

I disagree. Perhaps inappropriate depending on your point of view, but not
nonsense.

> You are a human. Humans are adaptable. If you're too lazy to adapt you
> have proven yourself sub-human. If you show this kind of strident lack of
> courtesy you're proving you are less than sub-human. You must be a mere
> machine with a defective parser.

The above alinea is strange. What you wrote, was the following:
"T is X. All X have property Y. If T does not have property Y then T is
not X. T is not X."

I interpret this as either one of the following:
* a "reductio ad absurdum". However you have failed to give evidence that
your subject (Thorny) does not have property Y (the ability to adapt).
Your reasoning is incomplete and therefor nonsense.
* a contradiction. Simply put: "T is X. T is not X." Contradictions are,
by definition, illogical and therefor nonsense statements. This is not to
be confused with a paradox, which is an apparent (but not an actual)
contradiction.

Anyway, one can also say that the topicstarter should have the ability to
adapt, and should adapt himself to follow the well established norms of
this list.

> Since it appears Ubuntu appeals to sub-humans or machines I don't have to
>  investigate it, after all.

It sounds a lot more creepy when you translate that to German:

"Da es scheint, dass Ubuntu nur Untermenschen oder Maschinen appelliert,
muss ich es schliesslich nicht nachforschen."

Godwin, anyone?

-- 
Amedee