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Re:With Rifle and Bibliography: General Mattis on Profession... by PakG1 on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:18AM (#5684759)
Today I learned: even allegedly smart posters on HN can be unable to understand context.
Re:With Rifle and Bibliography: General Mattis on Profession... by ctdonath on Friday May 10, 2013 @09:12AM (#5685960)
There is an odd phenomenon prevalent on the 'net: the presumption that a short blurb written with a small audience and particular point in mind should, somehow, contain encyclopedic completeness to every conceivable objection any twit may conjure up, no matter how ill-informed or tenuously applicable.
Re:With Rifle and Bibliography: General Mattis on Profession... by omegant on Friday May 10, 2013 @05:27AM (#5685332)
That´s why sometimes silence is the only viable option, any other one only receives mental onanism as a response, the conversations ends in the same place but with the OP mentally exhausted.