Posted by FCP User on 09/18/07 06:06

In article <VsEHi.54199$YL5.4388@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>,
"nappy" <spam@spam.com> wrote:

> "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
> news:13estpt3f7ldc3e@corp.supernews.com...
> > "Joe" wrote ...
> >> The true newbies around here would like to know what's an "FCP"?
> >
> > As an MS Windows user (as am I), you might not know the
> > Mac-specific video editing appliation: "Final Cut Pro"
> >
> > I must say that the ad-hominem attacks around here don't
> > put some of the regulars in a very good light.
>
> Yeah.. no shit.. well when I make a non-personal comment about Videomaker
> magazine and our rank amateur chimes in with comments about me personally he
> can go fuck himself. If he doesn't want to keep it about the topic and wants
> to personalize it I am happy to stomp him. He could have come on and told
> everyone why they should go or why he spammed this NG with that shit.. But
> instead he chose to insult me.So if THIS thread went personal you can blame
> the fool. He's always been and asshole with an over inflated sense of self
> importance and always will be a rank amatuer asshole with no credits and
> nothing going for himself. Fuck him. I feel sorry for him. I think it is
> some twisted jealousy or something.. The only threads he contributes to are
> the ones where he takes cheapshots at me. He's a fool. .



Nappy in tantrum mode? It would be interesting if he were real. But he's
not. Just a ghost in the machine.

What you call your "non-personal comment" was, in fact, yet another
ill-informed rant illuminated by your near total ignorance about the
subject matter you were so blissfully critiquing.

YOU'RE the guy who "waxed informed" on seminars you've never attended,
and events you've never experienced!

I called you on it because I was THERE - in the middle of what you were
spouting opinions about without EVER experiencing for yourself.

I countered your opinions with FACTS.

I'm not associated with Videomaker any longer having voluntarily
resigned my column and contributing editorship nearly a year ago to
develop my commercial product.

But I'm proud of my tenure there and all the people who I (hopefully)
helped along the way to a better understanding of video fundamentals.

Folks reading this will be able to judge who's an amateur and who's the
"working professional", pretty well by simply looking both of us up.

For nappy, that means reading what he's scrawled here - since he hides
whatever else he is behind his play-name and has NO verifiable
credentials. None.

For me it's easier. My opinions are in 10 years of published articles,
thousands of searchable newsgroup posts, and even in photographic
evidence of where and how I work (see another post in this series.

Who I am and what I do has been verified by real people who have
personally worked with me, crewed for me in my studio or on the road,
attended my lectures or otherwise known me personally.

Strangely, untrue of ANY of old nap's so called "credentials" all of
which are TOTALLY unverifiable.

And saddest of all, when called on his lack of experience in the
subjects upon which he's pontificating , rather than mustering reasoned
counter argument - he falls directly to lobbing F-bombs with abandon.

Ad hominem, indeed.

Stomp away dude. Ghosts make no sound and leave no tangible wake. They
are products of the imagination.

--
Bill Davis
StartEditingNow.com
DVD editing instruction with Multi-Track Movies

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