Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932903Ab1EYOWZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 10:22:25 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:49019 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755403Ab1EYOWX (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 10:22:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to:references; b=EaPRdvudwgJjYP/L1KBOeCDeODIiH/Hjr5ZDsmI6P9itPf2SgSL1UU8dWIH2MN5cI4 CrpK/8eJ06ISO5WrEXFkFr6azEzsILvMjSolprg0D1TnDB3e/PcVkgmmoQjj3BIx6fLh L2DCzYBljaIaswerjZZav62tLq/boSR7+7Jk4= Subject: Re: UNIX Compatibility Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:20:09 +0000 From: Michael Witten To: Mike Galbraith Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Richard Yao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <64e4614dda6f4558a68a314d7b5979b5-mfwitten@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1306297108.4819.28.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <20110524181619.GC26055@thunk.org> <1306297108.4819.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2376 Lines: 55 On Wed, 25 May 2011 06:18:28 +0200, Michael Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:31 +0000, Michael Witten wrote: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 18:16, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> >> > No one ever bothers to deal with issues because they are tiny, >> > nit-pitcky things that no one other than standards mavens would care >> > about. You have to be someone who is extremely anal to really care >> > about this kind of stuff. It's really stupid stuff... paper pushers... >> > >> > If you want to waste time out of your life that you'll never get back... >> > ... >> > ... standards committee, as full of ivory-tower eggheads as it is, >> > does have some folks who recognize that there is such a thing as >> > the Real World)... >> >> The world would be a better place if you weren't so needlessly >> confrontational when sharing your knoweldge, Ted. > > Ivory-tower eggheads is common vernacular, a colorful and communicative > description of a mindset. Ted's usage added useful information to the > conversation, unlike the pompous interjection above. At first I thought you were labeling as `pompous' my suggestion that the world would be improved by the introduction of a little more civility in our discourse, and so I was confused. However, it ocurred to me that you were actually admonishing yourself for your preceding sentence: > Ivory-tower eggheads is common vernacular, a colorful and communicative > description of a mindset. Common vernacular among whom? Among the leathered-handed thick-necked hacks bumping around mindlessly in the fog at the base of the ivory-tower? Oh. Perhaps, though, you are unfamiliar with that particular common vernacular for colorfully describing a mindset... Everybody brings a different brain to the task at hand, and it is foolish to dismiss an entire class of brain, especially by indirectly insulting a particular person. Ted just got finished telling Richard that Richard thinks about tiny, nit-picky, really stupid stuff on which only egg-headed paper pushers waste time that they'll never get back. We don't need that kind of thing. Sincerely, Michael Witten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/