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MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
[...] Certainly, he used to make some well informed, concise, posts...
Brett disagreeing with something doesn't make it less informed or concise.
No, and I didn't say that, you are however making a lot more very opinionated posts without actually bothering to read replies or in any way justify your position. If all you've got is opinions, try actually building ones that have some justification.
Currently you appear to be the one playing around the 'net with the "all these people disagree with me but that's not going to stop me from trying to stir up shit, for I am Mark, and my opinion is *obviously* correct.", I'm sorry, but I've entirely lost faith in your ability to give an unbiased and actually useful response to almost everything.
[...] I'd rather see experiences with companies limited to the minimum possible on this list, asking fine, presenting the information to the social list, as fact, without being asked for $opinions, less so... that's what blogs and planet are for.
Should one present fact as fiction? I've tried that before.
Your dealings with a company do not make it *fact*, it just makes it your experience with that company, dear boy. I can imagine that most companies after having to deal with you tend to seem quite crap.
I did ask for some opinions (does BT do anything right? and should I chase the privacy failure further?), but Brett's work colleague replied with hostility before anyone answered. Not grave, though.
BT pays for vast amounts of research, and they're certainly no worse than any other company with a monopoly.
I think you can actually refer to David as *David*, just because I do happen to work with him does not automatically relegate him to being "Brett's work colleague", weirdly, he has the same rights and freedoms as anyone else, it appears very disrespectful for you to refer to him purely as a work colleague.
For planet alug see: http://www.otherwayup.org.uk/planets/alug/ Which is some evil hacked up system that Mark wrote. Certainly it used to have some 'issues' as soon as a post did anything in the slightest 'wrong', I tend to read less and less of it now as I read some other sources that have a lot of the same posts on.
Evil? Issues? The script used (schycyroll) reads xml/rdf/rss/xhtml and uses set theory to construct a new web page, with a couple of nice twists missing from the python planet. It works fine, as far as it goes. A possible improvement is to add html and atom parsers, but I've not gotten around to that yet.
See noodles' post on this, there are issues with it, you've been told about them before. - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk