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Once again, luckily I am not here to make friends heh?

If my simple post requesting haste actually "offended" someone then
that person should perhaps be seeking psychological treatment?
Further, if there was actual offence taken, then those individuals
should speak up and I shall call them personally to apologise.

Personally I think that your statement that I have offended people was
used a little too loosely. If people are going to get worked up over a
simple post like mine then the issue is their's, not mine.

Still, I am sorry to all those I have offended. Please email me
"learndotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx" and I will call you to apologise in person.

Maybe we can all get together and have a cry about the whole thing?
Loosen up people, life's too short to worry about little stuff like
this. Get over it.


Your initial post somehow suggested that posting here was somehow faster than actually testing it yourself. Or, let me word this another way: Your time is too valuable to actually test and implement something, so you hoped someone else would do that for you and tell you the right answer. In summary, instead of spending 5 minutes testing it you spent 1 minute firing off a newsgroup post and hoped someone else would do your job.

The responses, mine included, suggested that testing it would be faster in the sense that you would have the answer sooner. If, on the other hand, your way of "faster" means "I hope someone else will do my job" then I'm sorry to disappoint you, the world does not work this way, nor does the newsgroups.

In real life, most of the time anyway, things work on the basis that "you get what you pay for". In the newsgroups, your "payment" to put it like this is simply the assumption that if you're given an answer to your question you might spend some time here, actually answering some questions yourself.

Since you've demonstrated that you think your time is more valuable than ours, I'd say the chance of that is zilch. As such what you got was close to nothing, as it should be.

Finally, if your goal with your posts on this newsgroup is, as you so eloquently posted above, "I am not here to make friends" then I'd say you succeeded.

Basically you've made sure nobody that reads these newsgroups over time will even remotely think of answering any question you might have in the future. Additionally, employers who use Google when interviewing people might think twice about your skills and ability to fit into a workplace. We all make choices, most of the time they come back to us one way or another.

And yes, life is too short to worry about little stuff like this, which is why you probably ended up in a lot of killfilters today.

Mine included.

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Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
http://usinglvkblog.blogspot.com/
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