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Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37c1fb6a.266825852@news1.ns.sympatico.ca...
> Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote

>>> I'll try to explain it...

>> I know how it got like that. I was rubbing his nose in the
>> fact that that drive isnt anything like he claimed it would
>> be. Concentrate on what was before my 'doesnt happen'

> No way you'll ever predict which cluster
> the new data-in-town will be dropped into...

Corse there is. Thats entirely algorithmically determined, so is completely
predictable. Specify the circumstances precisely, always the same outcome.

> only time I'll drop to this in this whole thread...

Just another example of you not having the balls
to actually admit to yet another of your footshots.

> you're being a pain-in-the-???...

Yeah, some do find it a pain-in-the-arse to have their footshots pointed out.
Better get used to that, thats how usenet works, if you do one, someone
is bound to point that out and quite a few dont like that much at all.

> carefully run that through your language guide before you get too upset...

I dont ever get upset at pathetic attempts to smokescreen footshots away.

> the non-use of the word "being"  would've meant something vastly
> different...you're not there...yet...getting close...my opinion...

You have always been and always will be, completely and
utterly irrlevant, as is your opinion, specially when you dont
have the balls to admit to your footshots like that one and
the other one concerning the use of the dos prompt.

>>> I'll admit to having never taken a course in this stuff, having
>>> only done a lot of reading and a bit of experimentation.

>> Thats always been one of the big advantages with computing,
>> its normally feasible to do that and you'll often find that the
>> superficial glib assertions made in 'courses' are just plain wrong.

> Not always...

Never said always, I used the words 'normally' and 'often' for a reason.

> experience is still the best teacher...

Depends on the situation. Most obviously
where the outcome is fatal, it may not be.

> that will never change-unless it does.

Bizarre.

> I'll never be afraid to admit my lack of education,
> but I will assert my experience when I think it's
> appropriate...when I'm wrong, I'll take my lumps.

But dont have the balls to admit to being wrong.

> Rod, youve been bending a lot of humps, etc, over nothing but semantics...

Complete tripe. No semantics involved saying that only dinosaurs
furiously bash away at the dos prompt on a working Win9x system
for all file ops, and saying NOTHING about the use of the dos prompt
for other situations like a system that wont boot Win, even in safe mode,
or where you want to do a quick ping with whats installed by default
when doing an installation to see whats going on with the network etc.

I told you how to see what I really think about the use of the dos prompt
in general, going back over years, long before this pathetic excuse for a
thread and dills like you not being able to comprehend what is being
discussed and being oh so sure that I am changing my position on that.

Bet you wont have the balls to admit to that either.

> niggling and nit-picking...

See above.

> I and others have recognized when you were
> right/wrong/different...do us a favour...give us the same...

Not on that particular question about whether I have changed
at all on the use of the dos prompt during this thread. You are
just plain wrong and dont even have the balls to admit that.

And when you dont, you might care to consider whether anyone with
any sense would take any advice from you on how post any time soon.