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cheers. you're right. sun's forum is so crazy - i post a question - 20 replies come, off topic, accusing me of being 3 different people they recently banned (mad, because i've never been there in my life!) - and in the end they just delete my thread!
unlucky for them I'm a mean mutha. maybe what I am about to do will help us all - i used my sales calling manner (i sound like foggy - i used my karate expertise) to get someone helpful at Sun's EMEA office to give me the details to contact the head of business development based in London. I should be able to speak to him directly within a week or so (I've talked to higher-up people many times, due to my phone skills, but the details I got for this guy are good - I have his name, his p.a.'s name, the number for him, etc).
If a serious developer can't go to sun's forums on their domain, and be anything but put off and harassed, sun has a serious problem. I'll talk to this guy, Nugent. I'll insist he gets sun to look into this and give him a good idea of why he should ( I usually approach people as an investor in technology). Hell, I spoke to one of Sir Stuart Rose's men only yesterday, and we had a friendly chat about what M&S can do to be removed from my boycott (I started by explaining my position as an advertiser - 300,000 pounds of retail sales from 400 pounds of ad overheads... a genuine figure! but i think he was just pro-palestinian, that's why he listened. Naturally it was just an act of doctor who, i don't expect a press announcement of M&S stopping using israeli sources JUST yet. but gimme time. rose will submit).
however, for the purpose of progress, I'll read the link you gave! Not today - off to the library in my spare time to read my perl book. Meanwhile back here, INSIDE the tardis, the list of forums is now increasingly rapidly and moving from 1000 up toward the 10,000 UK forums I want on my list asap. I won't do any campaigning yet - elsewhere I'm talking to salient old people to be absolutely sure of the best "pitch" to use on the 300 million people.
Somehow I think my chance to do a BIT of java in passing (in the present moment at least) has slipped away. Although at the same time those computer nerds really reassure me. At least I know what WE'RE not - out here on these forums. When people mock the stereotype of a geek, what they're actually mocking is this freak fringe group you get which is totally exemplified on forums.sun.com!
The only on-topic suggestion i got for helping make my "nonviolence" chess was someone telling me about his new chess shoot-em-up game. i had a few dry words to say to that one, i can tell you, but i think they've deleted my thread. all the more power to use against them when i have nugent on the phone wondering how much money i'm planning to invest in java.
(ain't no sense in lookin down, ain't no discharge on the ground...) (just my 2 mp3 player speakers).
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