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RE: Future-proof = bullshit

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John Atkinson

In Reply to: RE: Future-proof = bullshit posted by Doug Schneider on March 20, 2017 at 18:47:19

>With all due respect -- give me a break. This is a public forum and I'm a
>registered user. Besides, I don't see you haven't trouble posting wherever
>you like.

Of course. But if you examine my postings, I respond to comments and questions
posted about things Stereophile's writers or I have written, not other
writers or publications.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

Follow Ups:

RE: Future-proof = bullshit - Doug Schneider 05:08:36 03/21/17 (3)
Hi John,

That's your choice. But I don't see this as a forum just for that. I'm into audio like the other guys here are -- I live this stuff 24/7, as do you likely -- and this is a place for exchange information.

Doug Schneider
SoundStage!
- Hey, you're lucky he didn't call you a dick :-) nt - Rick W 09:21:16 03/21/17 (2)
  nt
  - You really have to earn that one (nt) - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 12:23:30 03/21/17 (0)
    nt
  - I've never understood calling people names on the internet - DAP 09:46:12 03/21/17 (0)
    In the school yard, if you called somebody a dick, it wasn't really about the name, but the implied threat that lay behind it. About whether the caller could beat the callee, or vice versa. If the caller was stronger and meaner, there wasn't much the callee could do other than recite the "sticks and stones" rhymes.
    But on the internet, somebody calls somebody a dick, and then, what? What can anybody do? We're left with the abstraction, the name, instead of the sticks and stones. The name kind of hangs there, perhaps evocative of a more manly era, and then goes like the mist. Somebody shouts LOL!, and it's gone.
    Daniel
    
    Edits: 03/21/17

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