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From: Rowland McDonnell on 21 Jun 2008 12:01 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet> wrote: > > > Eddie <efl42(a)invalid.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > (Rowland McDonnell) said: > > > > > > > > > Those who can, do Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, > > > > manage. > > > > > > > > Those who can't manage, post to usenet. > > > > > > > ROTFL > > > > <shrug> > > > > I can't do anything much, except for wittering on in writing. Too ill. > > > > But that's okay - you enjoy yourselves sniggering at someone else's > > disabling illness, I'm sure it's funny for you. > > Rowland, that really didn't look like a personal attack to me. Zoara, that really does look like a deliberately annoying patronising response to me. Chir's post (esp. as followed up by Eddie) looked like a personal attack to me - as obviously so as a punch in the face. So what are you on about? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 21 Jun 2008 12:01 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: [snip] > I certainly didn't mean to imply anyone wasn't managing, and I am sorry > if anyone took it that way. I took it as a personal insult directed at me and I cannot see how it could be interpreted in any other way. Your `apology' is hypocritical and dishonest. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 21 Jun 2008 12:01 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > (Andrew Stephenson) said: > > > chrisridd(a)mac.com "Chris Ridd" writes: > > > >> I certainly didn't mean to imply anyone wasn't managing, and I > >> am sorry if anyone took it that way. > > > > FWIW, I took your use of "manage" in context to mean what (eg) > > business managers do, > > Yes, in the context of that old joke about "those who can't, foo" > that's the only sensible interpretation. Quite - so anyone who comes up wiht anything other than what you have decided is the only sensible interpretation should be single out for social exclusion, as you are doing with me. How nice of you. > > not what struggling under-resourced folk > > do. But taking things in context seems not to be popular with > > at least one poster here. You have nothing to apologise for. > > It didn't hurt, but thanks. I think you're all behaving in an appallingly arrogant fashion. You disgust me. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Eddie on 21 Jun 2008 15:29 real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > Eddie <efl42(a)invalid.org.uk> wrote: > > > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > > > > > Eddie <efl42(a)invalid.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > I spent some time looking for a decent crip sheet but not found one > > > > yet. > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > It's just occurred to me that there is a good crib sheet available and > > > it's very very easy to find. > > > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/LATEX-Preparation-Reference-Addison-Wesley-Tech > > > niques/dp/0201529831/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212839211&sr=8-1> > > > > [snip] > > > > Thanks for that Rowland. > > > > I have just spent most of the last couple of days going through a sort > > of learning curve. > > > > I have to say, that despite your enthusiasm for Latex, I'm not sure its > > going to win over the great unwashed who insist that Word is fine:-( > > Umm. > > (wysiwyg is terrible in many applications; but on the other hand, LaTeX is > impenetrable for most people. It'd just be nice if there were something > with LaTeX's power and stability and all the good structured things in > LaTeX that people liked to use as much as they like using wysiwyg systems. > But that'll come along some time after the water-powered flying space > car, I think) I have a funny feeling we have discussed this before, but I do like my Techwriter (a development of the old MacAuthor) but sadly the programmer died before he could transfer it back to the Mac. In the meantime I have been trying Mellel which looks promising, especially as it has just been updated. Keep up the good work Rowland. [snip] -- Regards Eddie "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon
From: zoara on 23 Jun 2008 09:27
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet> wrote: > > > > > Eddie <efl42(a)invalid.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > (Rowland McDonnell) said: > > > > > > > > > > > Those who can, do Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, > > > > > manage. > > > > > > > > > > Those who can't manage, post to usenet. > > > > > > > > > ROTFL > > > > > > <shrug> > > > > > > I can't do anything much, except for wittering on in writing. Too ill. > > > > > > But that's okay - you enjoy yourselves sniggering at someone else's > > > disabling illness, I'm sure it's funny for you. > > > > Rowland, that really didn't look like a personal attack to me. > > Zoara, that really does look like a deliberately annoying patronising > response to me. It wasn't. > Chir's post (esp. as followed up by Eddie) looked like a personal attack > to me - as obviously so as a punch in the face. It didn't look like a personal attack to me. I thought it was funny, and if any kind of dig it was to usenet posters in general (ie a lower form of intelligence than managers). I laughed, despite being a usenet poster. I didn't see it as an attack, either general or specific. > So what are you on about? It really didn't look like a personal attack to me. -z- -- "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin |