From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DIET_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:72c6:: with SMTP id x189-v6mr4750469itc.30.1521829871325; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:31:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5f17:: with SMTP id f23-v6mr1738320oti.12.1521829871230; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!maths.tcd.ie!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!168.235.88.217.MISMATCH!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!u184-v6no933284ita.0!news-out.google.com!d3-v6ni997itf.0!nntp.google.com!199-v6no938006itl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:31:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.233.194; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.233.194 References: <9ed9edb1-3342-4644-89e8-9bcf404970ee@googlegroups.com> <26a1fe54-750c-45d7-9006-b6fecaa41176@googlegroups.com> <656fb1d7-48a4-40fd-bc80-10ba9c4ad0a4@googlegroups.com> <7649c01e-53d7-4734-bf0d-dac0bda4452d@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <80a5802d-1ca1-4c5c-a4ab-df0e74ba819e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada-Oriented GUI From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:31:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51180 Date: 2018-03-23T11:31:10-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 12:18:52 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On 2018-03-23 17:16, Dan'l Miller wrote: > > On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 7:59:38 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> On 23/03/2018 13:31, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote: > >> > >>> I (humbly) think that people not knowing Rx but arguing against it ar= e > >>> barking at the wrong tree. > >> > >> Yes, but this is a natural defense reflex against snake oil sellers. > >=20 > > But, Dmitry, you cocoon yourself in a layer of ignorance-is-BLISS (subs= tituting several topics for that old DEC language) or perhaps even more tha= n one layer. >=20 > Sure. >=20 > > To actually know that Rx and Ix are snake oil, you must first directly = examine the actual product for sale, >=20 > Impossible, there are too many sellers of that oil. Therefore the=20 > reaction goes towards the art of the presentation. When something is=20 > advertised as a new paradigm, groundbreaking, "how I lose my weight in=20 > just 1 week" etc, alarm bells start to ring. You sound like an anti-vaccination or anti-GMO person, who cannot even annu= nciate a path of inquiry that you yourself could travel to even consider th= e safety or lack thereof of vaccines or GMOs. For those people, vaccines a= nd GMOs are verboten as pure (irrational?) belief system and no amount of r= ational thought or scientific-experiment evidence would convince them (to e= ven open their mind to to the mere potential of being convinced), because r= ational thought and scientific-experiment evidence would threaten their sac= red golden-calf that they worship. They spent so much time & effort smelti= ng the gold to cast their golden-calf statue that they cannot give up on wo= rshipping the golden calf now.