<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Tim Straight wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><b>Old English Proverb: He who can, does - he who can't do</b></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><b>teaches or runs his mouth</b>.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is actually an old Scottish Proverb that was debunked in</div><div>1657 by Lord Byron in one of his personal letters to Lady Ada</div><div>in response to her letter describing her idea for a new way to</div><div>"compute logically" (which as well all know now, became the</div><div>foundation for the Ada computer programming language).</div><br><blockquote type="cite">You have much to learn, dude. You obviously think you know</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">all there is to learn but I really don't think so, this is why you</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">run your smart mouth when you can't answer a user's simple</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">question, if you don't know the answers to the user's problem,</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">then say so rather than make smartass remarks in an attempt</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to make him sound like a dumbass..<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can I make two fairly simple requests here, Tim:</div><div><br></div><div> 1. Please don't use the word "ass", at least not to excess</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the way you have been doing. An "ass" is a fine animal</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>that has given mankind many thousands of years of loyal</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>service and using that term in the derogatory way that</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>you are using it is insulting to all the "asses" that I know.</div><div><br></div><div> 2. I can tell that you are generally very much more informed</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>about how VLC works and why it would fail to work in a</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>certain situation even when minimal to no useful failure</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>information is given, then the VLC developers themselves,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>so I welcome you to solve the user's problems of why VLC</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>can't play videos downloaded via Limewire. I think that you</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>would be doing the VLC community and the Limewire file</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sharing/stealing community a great service by answering</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>that question for the poor user that is just trying to view the</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>latest pirated video that they saw on Limewire.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>A Very Satisfied VLC User</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. I'm assuming that you are American and posting from an</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>American geographic location. Hopefully we sill soon pass</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Single Payer Health Care (also known as "socialized medicine)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and therefore all the psychotropics that you require will be</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>available to you at taxpayer's expense and at no cost to you.</div><div><br></div><div>----</div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <br>-Tim<br>----------------------------------\\---------------------------------------<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/3 Rémi Denis-Courmont <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remi@remlab.net">remi@remlab.net</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:36:13 +0800, Tim Straight <<a href="mailto:tastraight@gmail.com">tastraight@gmail.com</a>><br> wrote:<br> <div class="im">> Not all these folks are technically oriented, some are simply searching<br> for<br> > a solution to a need or problem, while others obviously have a problem<br> > with the language... this is what *technical support* is all about. If<br> one<br> > doesn't enjoy their *volunteer* work then perhaps they shouldn't be doing<br> > it?<br> <br> </div>Yeah, good idea. I will do like most other people here and stop wasting my<br> precious *unpaid* time ever answering questions on this mailing list.<br> <br> I am sure that will be a great improvement from the user's perspective.<br> Besides, you will answering instead, right?<br> <br> French proverb: Only he who does nothing breaks nothing.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">Rémi Denis-Courmont<br> <br> ______________________________________________________<br> vlc mailing list<br> To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br> <a href="http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc" target="_blank">http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>