Individualism versus conformity to impersonality not PHP

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gautamkoth wrote:Impersonality is meaningful when the conditional atmosphere turns around you to impact on such pessimistic illusion. We are admiringly cohesive to understand fundamentalism but the thematic concern does not lead to impersonal criticism. Individualism is crucial and conformity attains fundamentalism but impersonality sticks to remain unexplored or unknown to whole. The determination of this concern makes a mountain out of a molehill. The conscientious matter is pressing home a running battle over the fact of impersonality. Does it really lock horns?

Individualism highlights personal philosophy to attain universal goal as conformity strikes to retain fundamentalism where as impersonality is mystification of perfection.

According to Bertrand Russell, “One of the most important elements of success in becoming a man of genius is to learn the art of denunciation. You must always denounce in such a way that your reader thinks that it is the other fellow who is being denounced and not himself; in that case he will be impressed by your noble scorn, whereas if he thinks that it is himself that you are denouncing, he will consider that you are guilty of ill-bred peevishness.”

Impersonality lies behind individualism looking back to conformity.
As Shakespeare said, “Frailty thy name is woman.” Is it impersonality?

I am cocksure to call a spade a spade ignoring the vitality of the theme


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You keep posting these things. I'm sure you think they're examples of really well written prose that demonstrates your ability as a writer. You're wrong. They're awful. You come across as someone who's trying their best to put it as many big words as possible rather than trying to communicate your message as well as you can. That's an incredibly amateurish mistake when it comes to writing. If your aim is to market your skills as a technical writer you would do much better posting things people will actually want to read that you've written in an engaging and interesting way without trying to emulate Sir Walter Scott.
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I have to ask - what is the point of all those language-themed posts? You do know this is a programming forum?
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gautamkoth wrote:As I mentioned that I am cocksure to call a spade a spade.
Why would anyone say that rather than saying "I speak my mind" or "I say it as I see it"? It's just pretentious nonsense. Noone would ever pay you to write like that.
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Are we now so far that we're actually discussing stuff with a spam bot?
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I move that the relevant authorities begin to consider starting to take measures against successfull future accesses of this messageboard by this individual.

In other words: ban baan, ban baan, ban baan, ban baan (lovely baaan, wonderful baaan)
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He should be banned, he's almost certainly a bot or someone testing a bot.
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Mordred wrote:I move that the relevant authorities begin to consider starting to take measures against successfull future accesses of this messageboard by this individual.

In other words: ban baan, ban baan, ban baan, ban baan (lovely baaan, wonderful baaan)
I'd ban him instantly if he was actually spamming us. But he isn't. It's just crap. Posting crap isn't against the rules.

I'd have been banned years ago if it was... :twisted:
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ghurtado wrote:He should be banned, he's almost certainly a bot or someone testing a bot.
"almost certainly" isn't good enough.
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gautamkoth wrote:I think you did not understand a little about the topic therefore, you said "it is a bot"
Noone understands what you're posting because your style of writing is incomprehensible. I have to admit I am getting a little annoyed by it. Post sensibly in a manner that people can understand please.
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I think he should change his field:
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I have just reverse engineered this bot. It works like this: First you take a sentence:
This is a short sentence.
And you reword it
The length of this sentence is minimal.
until
The word count of this sentence leans towards the lower extremum.
you think it's long enough
The amount of words used in this sentence leans towards the lower extremum
Extra bonus for using long words, but it will be cared for in the next step: The Thesaurus!
Go over the words and replace them with entries from the thesaurus, but only if they are longer than the originals. This leads us to the final version:
The expenditure of predications undertaken in this interjection descends towards the reduced extremum.
Doing this automatically is on the boundaries of what's possible with the current AI techniques, but if one happens to live in a country with cheap labour, one can just hire people to do it.
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gautamkoth wrote: If there is no ethics in technology it can not be beneficial for the mankind. Have you seen the picture “Die Hard” of Bruce Wills? Have you read the article written by Norman Weizenbaum?
Presumably this refers to "Computer Power and Human Reason" by Charles Weizenbaum, which is actually a really good book. It may or may not be relevant that Weizenbaum is the inventor of Eliza.

Edit: My first sentence above doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. I think the error is known as a "dangling modifier". This is why I'm slow to mock grammar or prose style - Muphry's law always bites.

Edit 2: That would be Joseph Weizenbaum. :|
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I apologize, it's obvious now that I was mistaken in my assessment of the OP as a spam bot.

Thing is, I have seen a couple of spam bots in the past that followed almost exactly the same pattern seen here: incomprehensible, run-on, incoherent sentences, with a definite foreign "accent" and an evident overuse of complicated words that look forcefully yanked from a thesaurus.

Turns out it's an actual person behind the truckload of shallow prose. What do you know? :)

Personally, I think there is still a hidden agenda somewhere. Nobody takes the trouble to write something so elaborately incoherent without a purpose. Might it be that this "technical writer" is looking to spread his texts throughout the web without much regard to how they are received, in an attempt to build his "portfolio"?

I leave you with a quote from his blog...
Hi, I am Gautam Sarma dedicated myself to find out some crispy new tactics in the field of Crazy writing world. I think you may agree with me ---- Business of stylistic words is the fact of contemporary cyber trade
:crazy:
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The expenditure of predications undertaken in this interjection descends towards the reduced extremum.
Mordred, I think this should be your new signature ;)
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