Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 20:10:17 04/04/03
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On April 04, 2003 at 19:44:52, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On April 04, 2003 at 17:51:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On April 04, 2003 at 16:58:31, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>>On April 04, 2003 at 13:36:23, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Correct. Also, I did not reproduce the emails in whole, instead I quoted from >>>>them. I had some interest in preserving the author's copyright. If hairs are >>>>split, it may be found that I was a little loose with this, but on the other >>>>hand, the email to me also contained copyrighted material (the "art"). >>>> >>> >>>You are crazy if you are going to be defensive about this. I don't know where >>>the posters of this newsgroup got the queer notion that publishing an email or >>>letter you received is not legal, or a breach of copyright. It's not. A letter >>>you received is your property to do whatever you want with it. >>> >>>If we are going to get legal, then you should have answered the first email you >>>received "Please don't send me any more such emails". The legal term for further >>>emails would then be harassment. If you seriously don't want to receive such >>>messages you can get a restraining order, though I believe you'll need to get it >>>in Austria. >>> >>>Amir >> >>Amir let's be a bit objective here. He did ship content back at which Chrilly >>could conclude if he was just IQ=100 that Bruce didn't appreciate what he got. >> >>Further Chrilly got back some furious reaction from me asking him why he was in >>favour of the Saddam regime. >> >>Chrilly didn't deny this question. So using your own logics as above here, that >>would legally mean that Chrilly is supporting the Saddam regime. >> >>Do you agree or disagree now? >> >>Vincent > >My reaction was "why did you send this to me?" He responded and I did not >reply. I know that others responsed much more vigorously. Obviously, since one >of the people who got it was Bob. > >But even so, it seems very clear that the intent was to cause a reaction. I >mean, if I throw a rock through your window, you shouldn't have to say anything >to let me know that you won't appreciate it if I throw another one. > >The intent of this whole thing was to provoke a discussion of the war. I don't >see that it has much of anything to do with the war. > >It's interesting that the CSS thread about this, the first responses are about >the war. > >"Bruce gets rude email, is pissed off." > >"Well, what do you expect, the war is illegal." > >I don't give a shit if the war is illegal, with regard to this incident. This >kind of thing crosses every line, as far as I'm concerned. The Germans can't >understand this because they have a different cultural deal. > >Bizarre response as far as I'm concerned. > >And you know, it's not just, hey, here's shit in your email, pphhhbt. It's that >there isn't even any effort to talk to me. It was like, you are an American, >therefore you are stupid and understand nothing, despite the fact that I barely >know you and probably know nothing about what you think about this, here is a >piece of shit, bon appetite. > >I bet that as far as the sender knew, I opposed the war. > >I barely even know this person and he does this. Cripes. > >bruce Ok i'll admit it is 6 AM here now and i just slept a few hours. So kind of up early again. But i just did do some math on brutus and possible sales after reading the article Chrilly wrote in german. It assumes kind of: "if i get world champion then i play kasparov next". if he plays kasparov then how much versions of brutus will chessbase sell? Just guess. I guess 50000. That's way less than software sales in numbers, but of course hardware doesn't sell as many versions as software does. But i forgot that each unit is wroth a lot more than a software unit is. each unit will sell for. Well you guess. 1000$ or 500$ ? I'm not so good in fpga card math. let's assume the smallest price. that means 500$ x 50k = 25 MLN. Now and then i do not find it coincidence that only the americans seemingly got this email or those involved into USA. Best regards, Vincent
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