Barge, SL, etc
Some comments and advice from an old lady. First of all, I gain enormously from what you both have to say. Barge, you make me think, and think and think. SL, you help me understand. You have the ability to put things in a context that non-techies can understand.
I have been around the block a few times and I have been on our local city council for 26 years. The speakers and dialogue on this message board frequently remind me of the speakers and dialogue at our Council meetings. Some we rely to have great details and very accurate facts, some provoke us to think, some just provoke us. There are those with agenda's, those who like to disagree, those who like to think outside the box... you get what I mean. Sometimes we have very heated debates. (Once I was accused of not having balls.. so for the next year I kept a pair of brass balls in plain site at my council seat. I suggested to my colleagues who me of not having balls, that my balls were on the table and I would like to seem him do the same. We are still great friends.) But, I digress.
What I really want you to get out of this is that people have different styles of communication, can disagree without being disagreeable. We don't make personal attacks and when people disagree with our ideas, we don't take it personal.
It is interesting to me that sometimes a poster(not necessarily you two) will post something.. someone will disagree... a debate will ensue.. evidence for various positions will be provided and inevitably it will deteriate into i'm right, your wrong, as if they are trying to convince the board. What they seem to fail to recognize is that most of us can read these posts and decide for ourselves.
Maybe the intensity that leads to both of you being so valuable to this board is also what causes you to be so certain and so upset (sometimes) when others don't agree with you or your level of certainty.
At this time when I think we are truly on the cusp of great things, I would hope that you would both stick round. SL,
I don't think it is about Barge winning. You both bring much to this board. Barge, buy a suit of armor.
Both of you... build a bridge and get over it.
LadyX
Patience=Prosperity
