[vlc] problems

[Michael Bender]

On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:31 AM, Tim Straight wrote:

> Old English Proverb: He who can, does - he who can't do
> teaches or runs his mouth.

This is actually an old Scottish Proverb that was debunked in
1657 by Lord Byron in one of his personal letters to Lady Ada
in response to her letter describing her idea for a new way to
"compute logically" (which as well all know now, became the
foundation for the Ada computer programming language).

> You have much to learn, dude. You obviously think you know
> all there is to learn but I really don't think so, this is why you
> run your smart mouth when you can't answer a user's simple
> question, if you don't know the answers to the user's problem,
> then say so rather than make smartass remarks in an attempt
> to make him sound like a dumbass..

Can I make two fairly simple requests here, Tim:

     1. Please don't use the word "ass", at least not to excess
	the way you have been doing. An "ass" is a fine animal
	that has given mankind many thousands of years of loyal
	service and using that term in the derogatory way that
	you are using it is insulting to all the "asses" that I know.

     2. I can tell that you are generally very much more informed
	about how VLC works and why it would fail to work in a
	certain situation even when minimal to no useful failure
	information is given, then the VLC developers themselves,
	so I welcome you to solve the user's problems of why VLC
	can't play videos downloaded via Limewire. I think that you
	would be doing the VLC community and the Limewire file
	sharing/stealing community a great service by answering
	that question for the poor user that is just trying to view the
	latest pirated video that they saw on Limewire.

Thank you,
A Very Satisfied VLC User

p.s. I'm assuming that you are American and posting from an
	American geographic location. Hopefully we sill soon pass
	Single Payer Health Care (also known as "socialized medicine)
	and therefore all the psychotropics that you require will be
	available to you at taxpayer's expense and at no cost to you.

----

>
> -Tim
> ----------------------------------\ 
> \---------------------------------------
> 2009/11/3 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:36:13 +0800, Tim Straight <tastraight at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Not all these folks are technically oriented, some are simply  
> searching
> for
> > a solution to a need or problem, while others obviously have a  
> problem
> > with the language... this is what *technical support* is all  
> about. If
> one
> > doesn't enjoy their *volunteer* work then perhaps they shouldn't  
> be doing
> > it?
>
> Yeah, good idea. I will do like most other people here and stop  
> wasting my
> precious *unpaid* time ever answering questions on this mailing list.
>
> I am sure that will be a great improvement from the user's  
> perspective.
> Besides, you will answering instead, right?
>
> French proverb: Only he who does nothing breaks nothing.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
>
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