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Sander Rossel wrote: But why?
All I said was that vaccines have risk. In fact, all I did was quote the CDC website. I didn't even state an opinion. He then attacked me as an anti-vaxxer, Trump loving, religious zealot who denies science. Which none of that is true. He lost his mind.
He's done it many times before. I'm not sure if he's very stable mentally. All of our posts are there, if I did something wrong I don't mind someone pointing it out with an explanation. He's behaved this way before with other conservative people. No discussion, just unfounded accusations.
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ZurdoDev wrote: just unfounded accusations
ZurdoDev wrote: I'm not sure if he's very stable mentally
Why is there any need, at all, to make personal comments about someone else on forums dedicated to software development and the sharing of knowledge.
Stop the trolling, the "let's see how close I can push it" mentality, the "it's not my fault, it was him", and instead focus on contributing to an experience that is positive for the readers here.
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You are correct, Chris. However, it frustrates the hell out of me that others on the site don't get in trouble for the same behavior, let alone, a personal reply comment from you on the matter.
Eddy started this, and he ended it. Let's not forget that.
Since you guys banned me a while back I have behaved for the most part, and I toe the line in regards to your site and forum rules, but there is very much a double standard at this site regarding certain members and who gets in trouble and who does not for the same offenses.
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First and foremost this is a site for software developers and our rules have always been to be respectful to one another.
We absolutely will miss some of the fights, name calling and trolling. We may very well call out one person and miss another. But I'm not so much interested in who started it. I care about how people react.
Don't reply. Don't get personal and then point to that other person and say "he started it". I'm not going to spend my days reading through threads and deciding who's actually at fault and who's a "victim".
Everyone is responsible for their own actions.
I ask, with the deepest respect for those who choose to share their time and their skills in helping other programmers, to know when to answer and to know when to let a message be. We don't need to have the last word.
Let's please work to give everyone a positive experience.
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Chris Maunder
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Brave. Not many brave conservatives exist on this site.
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Be prepared to have any answers you've posted downvoted in order to affect your rep points.  When I called him out on his trolling back in September, the next day over ten of my not-so-good answers were downvoted within a span of a couple minutes. I didn't care, but if it is being done to others I do care. And I care that Eddy has left. Sad.
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Chris Maunder wrote: Why is there any need, at all, to make personal comments about someone else on forums dedicated to software development and the sharing of knowledge.
Don't know. Ask Eddy. My comment is a reaction after a day's worth of nonsense from him.
Chris Maunder wrote: Stop the trolling, the "let's see how close I can push it" mentality, the "it's not my fault, it was him",
I don't do any of that.
Chris Maunder wrote: and instead focus on contributing to an experience that is positive for the readers here.
Most of my time on here IS spent on that, in QA and forums.
Chris Maunder wrote: that is positive for the readers here.
If that is the bar, then most people need to be let go.  
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With new daily records ... and rhetoric about "rounding the bend" ... proves that reason has been sacrificed.
For the logic-minded, "that" is the definition of "mentally unstable"; at least as it applies to their sycophants.
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ZurdoDev wrote: anti-vaxxer, Trump loving, religious zealot who denies science
I am gonna reuse this 
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On another forum I know (and many others too, I expect) this is known as a "flounce". 
Why not just stop logging in for a while and come back when the air has cleared. Looking at the other thread, it's not that bad a confrontation.
** edit **
Oh, I see you've already gone. 
Oh well, you've still got 28 days to un-flounce, I guess.
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markrlondon wrote: Looking at the other thread, it's not that bad a confrontation.
It's not the first, those guys have been going at it for months if not years.
What I don't get is how you can let a stranger on the internet get under your skin like that 
Sure, I've had my disagreements with people online, but it's so very easy to ignore them, you literally just have to do absolutely nothing
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Sander you are not old, grumpy and passionate about the same subjects as the combatants. However if I bitched at you about your coding style/capabilities you might feel differently.
The VB forum will miss Eddy.
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I've had my run in with Zurdo as well.
I can't even remember what he called me, but basically a child murderer and a sorry excuse for a human being, for being in favor of abortion legalization (this was back in The Soapbox days).
I'm not easily offended, but he actually managed to offend me.
I think that's the only time someone on the internet offended me and I've had run ins with actual nazi's who'd hack my computer and kill my family (no joke, some people are really toxic).
Then I remembered he's just some a**hole on the internet, so I flagged him for abuse and I've pretty much ignored him ever since (save for some exceptions).
So many people, so many opinions, on whatever subject.
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Please don't.
Some people come to have fun.
Some people come to learn.
Some people come to teach.
Some people come to antagonize.
If you let the antagonizers drive you away, they won.
Set a filter.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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In case you didn't notice, Eddy is the antagonist here.
So, he did win, and he self-filtered off the site.
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You can't leave...if you did and we divided up your rep points to be divided out between us it would come out odd and and some would get more than others.
Seriously...you'll be missed, stick around.
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Youtube made me watch a video on police spike strips. I had always thought they were long enough to cross the entire road but some of them are probably only about 10 feet long. The officers have to be on the side of the road and try to throw them out when the car is coming super fast.
Gee whiz! I had no idea these cops were that close to getting ran over. Crazy. It gives me a better appreciation for what they do.
But can't we invest in longer spike strips so that they can put it across the entire road instead of trying to hit a moving target?
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They have to fit in the police car together with everything else they always have to bring just in case.
Last time I saw the trunk of a police car it was full. In a very orderly way.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: They have to fit in the police car together with everything else they always have to bring just in case.
Your thinking that every police officer is always carrying them? Could be. I don't know. I would think not because they don't get used often but I'm no cop.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: Last time I saw the trunk of a police car it was full.
Next time, don't mouth off to the cop.
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I don't know if every police has the same equipment always in the car, but I think such things are like condomes or the umbrella,
better to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them
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But when they need them they won't have time to go to the station and pick one up, or the car(s) that has one might be on the other side of the county.
I'm actually pretty convinced it's standard equipment.
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Also it only needs to cover the side of the road they want to cover. If it went all the way across they would be in danger of damaging an innocent car going the other way.
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� Forogar � wrote: an innocent car going the other way.
Most of the time they have the road shut down.
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In the UK, that's not true - they generally don't have time to shut a road they have to anticipate whet route the perp will take, and hurry to get to a "choke point" where they can hide and deploy before the bandit arrives - and then get it out of the way of the police cars that are following close behind.
Here they use a "scissor action" device called STINGER 2000 Series[^] - it packs up small and will cover both lanes of a single carriageway road.
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OriginalGriff wrote: they generally don't have time to shut a road t
That's probably true in the US too. I said "most" but I have no idea. 
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