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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 06:04:50 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 06:03:25, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 01:51:11, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2004 at 10:20:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 12, 2004 at 19:46:44, Amir Ban wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 10, 2004 at 16:24:59, Jim Bodkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>... oh, and we do Mars missions. :)
>>>>
>>>>It's lucky that Mars is not in Europe or you'd never go there.
>>>>
>>>>Just make sure that the Mars mission is scheduled for less than a week and
>>>>doesn't coincide with a major holiday.
>>>>
>>>>Amir
>>>
>>>
>>>OR maybe do it _remotely_ so that we don't have to "go there" at all?
>>>
>>>Hint:  Mars mission has _no_ people on mars.  :)  They are using this new-
>>>fangled idea called remote data transmission...
>>>
>>>hmmm...
>>>
>>>Perhaps a bad analogy?  :)
>>
>>If I understood your president correctly, the ultimate goal is for a person to
>>actually be there. It seems he values the being there in person much higher than
>>being there remote.
>
>It's going to get incredibly expensive and risky to send _everybody_ to Mars,
>not to mention time consuming and troublesome.

Everybody, yes. But not everybody has been there remote. The ones who have been
there remote seem to think it's important to be there in person.

>
>Perhaps what we need is a new president to make the _right_ decisions?

Maybe you should check up on your local politics. It could be you have a
different president.

Tony

>
>>Good analogy I think :)
>
>Hmm, so so :)
>
>-S.
>>Tony



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