OT:
> re: densely packed sheet of free top quarks
> You have me there. What does that mean?
Oh, heh. :)
That's just my wanna-be physics major mind at play.
A quark is one of the most elemental of particles which make up matter. See, atoms are made of electrons, protons, and neutrons, and the protons and neutrons there are each made up of three quarks and a bunch of associated particles that I won't get into. Anyway, the funky thing about quarks is that they can never exist on their own. A quark can only exist as a constituent of another particle (such as a proton or neutron). It can, they say, never actually exist in a free state.
Regarding the ignore feature ... from a logical perspective, you are absolutely correct. I use this feature on three people on this thread, and it is fairly effective in increasing the signal to noise ratio. However, from an emotional perspective, this whole scenario presents a hard parallel to things which happened to me in my childhood. When I was a kid, I was verbally abused by larger and more aggressive children. This caused me much stress and trauma, and using the ignore feature then was not really something that was effective. So, now, when I see people harassing others in a similar fashion, I find it very difficult to detach myself emotionally.
Sorry for going off on you. Actually, what really set me off, you see, was that your initial message complaining about those who were against dissenting opinions was itself sent to someone who has a dissenting opinion on this thread. Andy Wonisch has been talking down the stock for months, saying (I believe) that AMD's management has some problems. But you seemed to treat him as if he were a category 1 poster. I just kinda got bizarrely irked by that for some reason. :)
-JC |
