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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

Alan MacHett said the following on 8/27/04 4:16 PM:

> Having not cared about the link till Dave's aneurysm, I didn't realize it
> approximated "RTFM".  Heh.
>
> OTOH, this is akin to someone asking for directions and you responding "Go
> buy a fucking map, buddy!"
>
> It takes considerably less time to elicit volunteered information than to
> have to search for it.  An internet search via Google doesn't produce very
> many hits, a few hundred at most, but it still requires more time to slog
> through that to find someplace local or mail-/online-order to buy the
> damned thing than to simply ask for directions.
>
> And "All smart people use Google"???  RRiiiiiiight! Step away from the
> crack pipe!!  Google my ass.  Let's try "All smart people use Windows" or
> "All smart people watch MSNBC ... or CNN" .... all smart people do what
> eeeeeeverybody else does.
>
> All smart people know where the hell they should be in the first place and
> use the site's local/internal search engine, which knows a helluva lot
> more than Google because Google doesn't give a rat's ass about relevance,
> only how fucking popular it is to the bloggers.
>
> </soapbox>
> Alan

How about: All smart people don't get so fscking upset over something so
trivial.  Soapboxes are overrated.  If you wanted me to understand and
appreciate your position, you did a lousy job.  Perhaps I should tell you
to RTFM on persuasion? O:-)

Cheers,
Tanner