Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way
<nebulous99@gmail.com> wrote in message
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The only possible reason (as I
detailed elsewhere) to drag that kind of thing into any discussion is
for the purpose of twisting it in some way and then launching
ad-hominem attacks against your opponent in the debate, in lieu of such
mature and constructive things as either a) arguing the thing being
debated itself instead of who's an idiot and who is this that or the
other unpleasant comparison or b) leaving well enough alone.
Notice though that it's not ad-hominem if the topic of debate is one of
the debaters themselves.
For example, consider this fictional debate:
A: I never lie.
B: You lied just yesterday!
A: Ad-hominem! Discuss the arguments, not the people!
Here, A is misapplying the ad-hominem label. B *is* allowed to bring up
the behaviour of A, specifically because it is A's behaviour which is under
debate.
I think part of the debate in this thread on comp.lang.java.programmer
has to do with your (Twisted/Nebulous') behaviour, so it isn't necessarily
ad-hominem to bring up your past behaviour and use it as evidence for an
extrapolation to present or future behaviour.
Of course, your behaviour (past, present or future), should not be used
as arguments in either direction as to whether it's better to hardcode
resources, or use the classloader's getResource() method, which is a
separate discussion altogether.
- Oliver