Ad Hominem attacks are the last resort of the weak of mind...Bill
Gates/Microsoftee use them every day...hey Ron, pay close attention:
Description of Ad Hominem
Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man"
or "against the person."
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or
argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the
author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically,
this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character
of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made
(or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the
claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or
argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of
"argument" has the following form:
1. Person A makes claim X.
2. Person B makes an attack on person A.
3. Therefore A's claim is false.
The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the
character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases)
have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the
quality of the argument being made).
Example of Ad Hominem
1. Bill: "I believe that abortion is morally wrong."
Dave: "Of course you would say that, you're a priest."
Bill: "What about the arguments I gave to support my position?"
Dave: "Those don't count. Like I said, you're a priest, so you
have to say that abortion is wrong. Further, you are just a lackey
to the Pope, so I can't believe what you say."
Ron Johnson wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 22:01, LinuxLaw wrote:
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>>Cement is useful if used properely -- for instance, in the manufacture
>>of concrete; windows is useful if used properly -- for instance, in the
>>manufacture of a weak and insecure network or a bloated and inefficient
>>desktop that crashes every few days for no apparent reason. Windows,
>>like cement, is everywhere -- windows, unlike cement, is everywhere b/c
>>its producer (Microsoft) has engaged in numerous
>>illegal/anti-trust/uncompetitive practices and done so while bribing the
>>"right" public officials in the form of "campaign contributions,"
>>"donations," "charitable acts," etc.... Cement, on the other hand, is
>>everywhere because it actually works, unlike Windoze.
>>
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>Speaking from experience?
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>>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.1)
>>Gecko/20020826
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>And I must say that I've been using Win2k WorkStation for ~ a year and
>have found it very stable, even under heavy memory loads. Still doesn't
>hold a candle to Linux, though, because of need for reboots during s/w
>install, and the separation of the OS from the GUI.
>
>This is why I don't understand the desire for DRI/frame buffer. When
>"regular" X hangs, I Ctrl-Break and restart X, but when using the fb,
>one must reboot the box.
>
>What, then, is the benefit of using the fb?
>
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>>Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 07:06, Joey Kelly wrote:
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>>>>Windows CE, ME, & NT = CEMENT
>>>>Built like a rock and just as useful.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>I've got some bad news for you Joey:
>>>
>>>Look around you: there is cement, concrete & stone *everywhere*.
>>>Without them, civilization would not be...
>>>
>>>Ron
>>>
>>>
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