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Article #16271Re: Gisse puts foot in mouth, and perhaps elsewhere (was Re: Pound Rebka
From: Eric Gisse
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:13
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On Feb 4, 4:22 pm, nonsense <nonse...@unsettled.com> wrote: > Eric Gisse wrote: > > On Feb 2, 3:54 am, nonsense <nonse...@unsettled.com> wrote: > > Look on this newsgroup for a minute. Is it _our_ fault that nobody has > > managed to teach Ken Seto anything for nearly 15 years? At what point > > does the burden shift away from the people trying to teach and onto > > the people who are unwilling to learn? > >http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/5ab9a16224b... > > OK, here is the totality of your "teaching" in the example > you have provided above: > > "Potential energy is GM/r, idiot. You wrote down force." > > Anyone who confuses that with "teaching" is severely > confused. Low expectations here. I adopt a "I'll tell you it's dumb, but I will also tell you why it's dumb" approach. Max Keon has a _long_ history of making basic mistakes and not learning his mistakes as pointed out by myself in nicer modes in the past, and others who were infinitely more patient than me. I don't like seeing stupidity go unchecked, but I also don't like simply sitting back and saying "that's stupid" without a little explanation. > > The discussion I attempted to embark on is far more > extensive, but it is obvious that there's no need to > go any further. I'll stop beating my head against this > brick wall before it starts hurting. Sorry. I've had this discussion with a few people before. I know my behavior is on the wrong side of "slightly inappropriate", but I will never reach the point where I'm acting like Androcles. I'm finding it simply better to just ignore certain people. > > Thanks for remaining civil in our conversation. This is how I am with people I have a nonzero amount of respect to, which is anyone who hasn't pissed away the default I give by being breathtakingly stupid. > > Best of luck to you. Thanks.
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