"Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:...
>
> "Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:v6hja5-dgp.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ["Followup-To:" header set.]
>> Dudley Hanks <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> "Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>>>> Not only does this generation not get a literary reference,
>>>> it also does not know about google ...
>>
>> [...]
>>> As for Google, sorry, I limit my Google searches to things I'm truly
>>> interested in...
>>
>> So you fire off a post to thousands and thousands of
>> people ... because of things you are too lazy to use google with?
>> Even knowing that an answer will be slower and inconvenience
>> more people than you copying and pasting a term to Google?
>>
>> You know what, I don't think I care reading anything from
>> someone who obviously does care so little.
>>
>> -Wolfgang
>
> Now, Wolfgang, don't take it personally. But, aren't you guilty of the
> same thing? After all, this thread started off rather humourously, and
my
> initial responses were in that same vane, as was yours.
>
> When I read your comment, I didn't recognize the name, so I wasn't sure
> whether you were confusing my style with someone else and thought I
might
> be an alias for, or whether you were making a more intricate reference.
> Which is why I responded with the question of who is David Harriman?
>
> Now, you come back and accuse me of inconveniencing yourself and
thousands
> of other people because I am too lazy to "copy and paste" a term into
> Google, without understanding anything about my situation?
>
> Well, FYI, it isn't quite as simple as you think. You might be able to
> simply copy and paste and read, but, when you are blind and depend on a
> screen reader, that isn't the case. Go to Google. Look at what is in
> front of you, and try to imagine how a machine would read back a
> description and the contents of that page. How long do you think it
would
> take to listen to that narrative?
>
> It can take me in excess of ten minutes to isolate and listen to a small
> piece of material buried deep in those humungous results pages Google
> generates -- and that is assuming the result I'm after is on the first
> page. You don't even want to think about how long it takes if it isn't.
>
> So, I'm sorry if I inconvenienced you when I thought you might come back
> with, "Oh, he's a guy I've noticed posting to another group." Or, "He's
> an author I enjoy." Or, "He's this idiot who works for the US
government
> I can't stand." But, in the future, when confronted by something I post
> that you don't have the energy to reply to, perhaps it would be more
> polite to simply ignore it than to assume everything is as easy for
others
> as it is for yourself. Remember, when you ASSume, you make an "ass out
of
> u and me."
>
> Good Day,
> Dudley
>
>
Oh, yes, for your entertainment and edification, try blindfolding yourself
and then do something, anything. Whatever you do, it will take you ten
times the amount of concentration and energy than it does when you do the
same thing with your vision. Now, imagine, I face that situation 24/7...
And, you say I'm too lazy to cut and paste...
If you can find your way to the backyard blindfolded, try taking a picture
that way. If you can, then we'll talk...
Dudley
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