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It is pointless to discuss anything with someone who accuses you of lying.

It is pointless to discuss anything with someone who accuses you of lying.

Posted Nov 12, 2009 1:25 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: The discussion is kinda pointless after blatant lie by khim
Parent article: GNOME 3.0 in September 2010

What it says. Curiously, falsely accusing another party of dishonesty is a favorite tactic of the dishonest to avoid addressing the matter at hand.

Allowing things to be turned off does not, in fact, add to testing load.


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It is pointless to discuss anything with someone who accuses you of lying.

Posted Nov 12, 2009 15:17 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes it does: you have to make sure that the rest of the system works with
all combinations of the deactivateable components deactivated.

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