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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:29:41 01/14/04

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On January 14, 2004 at 09:04:50, Tony Werten wrote:

>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.
>

"think it is important to be there in person."

"were really there remotely because of the cost and time"

Think about it.

What you want to do, and what you _can_ do are not always the same thing.

Same with the ECCC events....


>>
>>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.

Not sure what that means.  We've had the same president for 3+ years
now, most likely we will have the same president for the next 4+ years as
well...


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



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