Technological advantages over Linux

Rand Pritelrohm rand.pritelrohm at gmx.com
Sat Feb 15 19:15:29 UTC 2020


Le samedi 15 février 2020 à 13:02:46 (-0600),
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> a écrit :

> On 2020-02-15 12:59, Rand Pritelrohm wrote:
> > Le samedi 15 février 2020 à 12:40:42 (-0600),
> > Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> a écrit :
> >   
> >>> On Feb 15, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Rand Pritelrohm <rand.pritelrohm at gmx.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote :
> >>>
> >>> [...]  
> >>>>
> >>>> You can call the above “conspiracy theory” (often used to label something
> >>>> that is difficult to find rational argument against), which it may be,
> >>>> and in fact what we see may be just new ways the World decided to accept.
> >>>>      
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> True, this point is not related to the "conspiracy theory” but to the
> >>> baffling "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" mechanism [1].
> >>>
> >>> Rand.
> >>>
> >>> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>
> >> My trouble with “creative editing” like yours is, you kind of talk about my
> >> argument, which you fully edited away, leaving only my comment about that
> >> my argument… leaving it unclear what I have said that you are replying to.
> >>
> >> Was there any purpose of doing that? Never mind, it is just my curiosity
> >> why people do it when the do it ;-)
> >>
> >> Valeri
> >>  
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> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> Valeri Galtsev
> >> Sr System Administrator
> >> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
> >> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
> >> University of Chicago
> >> Phone: 773-702-4247
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  
> > 
> > 
> > Valeri,
> > 
> > My apologies, it's a bad habit from my office "standards". I have to correct
> > that and follow strictly the Netiquette.
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing it out to me.
> > 
> > Rand.
> >  
> 
> No need to apologize,Rand. I was just curious. And my guess was you were 
> going to remove unnecessary sentiment whether that is "conspiracy 
> theory" or not and leave previous paragraph...
> 
> I guess, I am a bit of thin skinned, I had my point reversed totally in 
> the past by "creative editing", that probably what made me peaky about 
> this ;-(
> 
> Thanks.
> Valeri
> 
> 

Valeri,

I see clearly what what you mean. Context and completeness of previous messages
are essential in order to avoid ambiguities and misunderstandings. It's true
everywhere.

Regards,
Rand.



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