I thought it was funny. If someone who previously thought we were all a bunch of criminals now thinks we're all a bunch of jerks, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.<br><br>Now back to soldering..<br clear="all">
<br>PGP Key ID: 0x0517358E<br>"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" - Goethe<br>--<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nameless@subluminal.net">nameless@subluminal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm sorry that my trolling offended some people. Perhaps you would have handled the situation differently. I did not. I didn't cause here to mess up her computer, I didn't do anything illegal, and I may have scared her away from doing something that could get her in trouble. Was it nice, no. Was it funny, you be the judge of that, I think it was. If one of you would like to email her and educate her, be my guest, but I will continue to troll people that ask for black hat type hackers in a public space and I will make no apologies for it. <div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jean de Largentaye <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jean@largentaye.org" target="_blank">jean@largentaye.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Chris Weiss <<a href="mailto:cweiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">cweiss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I find it impossible that a person would be<br>
> literate and smart enough to figure out how to join a mailing list and<br>
> yet not know that posing such a statement would induce ridicule.<br>
> Allowing myself to think this is possible would completely destroy<br>
> what little faith I have left in humanity's future.<br>
<br>
</div>What little faith you have is more than mine :) You know the saying:<br>
"Don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by<br>
stupidity".<br>
<br>
For evidence, I'll direct you to <a href="http://fark.com" target="_blank">fark.com</a>, the Darwin Awards, and of<br>
course, Fox News. You can be smart on some things and very very stupid<br>
on others. For example, remember the scandal about the NASA astronaut<br>
trying to kidnap a romantic rival? [1]<br>
<br>
<br>
That said, little faith in humanity doesn't mean I have lost patience<br>
with it. On the contrary, I try to have infinite patience. One of my<br>
great pleasures is seeing someone understand something I explain to<br>
them. I just try to avoid having any preconceptions about someone's<br>
intelligence and culture. That means I usually start them at the<br>
bottom of the scale. I'm sometimes told I appear arrogant and<br>
condescendent... ;)<br>
<br>
[1] first google hit:<br>
<a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/171164/nasa_fires_astronaut_in_love_triangle.html" target="_blank">http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/171164/nasa_fires_astronaut_in_love_triangle.html</a><br>
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