From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: reading/writing bytes smaller than 8 bits? Date: 2000/01/27 Message-ID: <3157925691061115@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578118266 References: <3157825117110563@naggum.no> <47lgxnrhf.fsf@beta.franz.com> <3157890087157420@naggum.no> <3157913150482948@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 948937079 5714 195.0.192.66 (27 Jan 2000 01:37:59 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879 or +1 510 435 8604; fax: +47 2210 9077; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2000 01:37:59 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * gat@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) | Rudeness can also be an inhibitor to communal development. All else being | equal most people will choose to work with someone who is friendly and | gives them the benefit of the doubt rather than someone who is rude and | condescending and makes worst-case assumptions about their motives. I'm happy that you, too, consider Marco Antoniotti's response _rude_ towards Franz Inc, and that you support my point: if you suspect the worst of motives when you receive a gift from somebody, other people generally don't give you much _more_ for free from then on. as for rudeness in this particular case, maybe you just need to learn to live with the fact that people find _you_ rude and _disgusting_ to deal with when you don your halo and fight to save the world from a rudeness you find only when _you_ make worst-case assumptions about the motives of others, but I guess that's OK since you do it, wearing that halo. I wish you had learned something, but you really learned _nothing_ from the last time we had this discussion. *sigh* and if you are such a champion of benefit of the doubt, consider making some actions of yours conform to your self-serving claims some day. it would be a little less disgusting to behold a reeking hypocrite actually follow his _own_ advice once in a while, at least. #:Erik