GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Robert Kern]

On 6/8/10 10:20 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jun 8, 8:35 pm, Ben Finney<ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au>  wrote:
>
>> Yes, thank you, Steven, for identifying this irritant. I'll add
>> identity-hopping to the list of offenses, and add this new identity to
>> my kill-file.
>
> So you put up with my antics fine up until you learned of my past
> identity. So now i am somehow so annoying as to require a plonking.
> NEWS FLASH! I am the same person i was 1 minute ago, 1 hour ago, 1 day
> ago, 1 week ago... the only thing that has changed is your perception
> of me.

It means that he, very charitably, gives new irritants the benefit of the doubt. 
By changing identities, you are abusing this good behavior. By connecting your 
identity to the previous one, his doubt is removed.

 > Now i ask of you Ben, who is flawed?

Still you.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco