Re: [stack] function "adjoinment"?

--- In [email protected], "William Tanksley, Jr" <wtanksleyjr@...> wrote:
>
> chris glur <crglur@...> wrote:
> 
> > There's no problem with people playing cross-word puzzles, but
> > when I queried cat-like's contribution to productivity, W. Tanksley changed
> > the
> > subject and pointed out that 'greatest productivity increases are from
> > team-building,
> > hence the increased use of java'. I don't dispute this, nor the claim that
> > any
> > productivity increase is bad, because it creates unemployment.
> >
> 
> That's not even a vague approximation to what I said; it certainly doesn't
> belong in quotes. You picked up _nothing_ about what I meant, although you
> did spell all the words correctly (except "team-building", which I never
> said). The succeeding economic claim is entirely incorrect, and isn't
> related to anything I said.

Don't let him get to you. You're getting angry enough that you're overstating your rebuttals (for instance, that economic claim isn't ENTIRELY incorrect, although it takes special circumstances like very low elasticity of demand for it to happen - but those DO occur). Sooner or later he's going to pick up on an overstatement and make out that it undercuts your entire position. P.M.Lawrence.