[Greenbuilding] Composting cat shit

[njh]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Racheli Gai wrote:

> And a message to njh: Your post comes across as needlessly unpleasant.  A 
> little civility goes a long way.

But I am not a citizen, so I don't need to be.  When your country starts 
treating those on work visas with dignity and respect we can talk about 
civility.  Let alone refugees and immigrants.  Until then consider me 
chastised for being rude.

It's an interesting problem that those who are willing to actually think 
for themselves are generally "cranky and impatient".  I wonder why this 
is, it's certainly well beyond chance. [1]

A bit of looking finds
http://www.iwillnotdie.com/why-smart-people-are-unhappy/
http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/11/impatience-and-design-by-counter.html

The latter in particular addresses this thread nicely: I threw away a 
remark about cat poo, and rather than focussing on the merit of the 
original idea, the nitpickers came out in force.  My proposed passive hot 
water system is similar.  Sure there are a bunch of nit picks even I made 
when I wrote my response, but I like to think that others are capable of 
seeing the core idea and resolving minor issues themselves rather than 
nitpicking.

Perhaps it would be better if nitpickers instead proposed solutions to 
their nits?

njh
[1] Some hide instead by extra pedantry and logic games, or 'extreme 
patience'.  I suspect these are all responses to the same pressure. 
Corwyn for example is trying to cut through the holism claims to see 
whether there is in fact a concept of holism independant from global 
optimisation via weighting of subproblems;  but we know that this is 
unlikely to happen and is really an attempt to make Gennaro see the folly 
of her ideas.  Good luck Corwyn, I'm rooting for you!