Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 10:42:11 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 02:37:44, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 29, 2004 at 09:32:25, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>The ICGA offered to fly one of their members to the guys house to look at his >>source on his computer! This would have taken 1 hour of his time at most. This >>is what makes me think List is a clone. Fritz Reul had a _trivial_ way to clear >>himself of all suspicion. Yet he didn't take it. The only possible >>explanations are that List is a clone, or that he just didn't care if the entire >>world thought he copied crafty, or both. > >I think you're assuming that because you wouldn't have had a problem with it, >that he shouldn't either, but everyone is different. > >If the ICGA came calling my brother for a meeting the night before one of his >high school football games, my dad would tell them that it would have to wait >until after the game. Priorities are different for each person and family. > >I don't know about you, but I've certainly had some classes that consumed just >about every spare second I had. Some weeks 1 hour would be the difference >between making an A on my homework or an F. > >Maybe school is more important to him than computer chess. Maybe he didn't want >to bother with this kind of distraction before an exam. I got the impression >that he lives with his parents. Maybe his parents said no to the code inspection >visit. Maybe his parents see school as a very serious priority, while this silly >computer chess hobby of their son's is on the same level as playing Playstation >2. Who knows? I don't think any of this implies guilt. > >I also don't see what's wrong with him not caring what other people think. Maybe >he's not insecure about the situation. Maybe he's sitting back having a good >laugh at all of our speculation :) I think that when you have put hundreds of hours into a program, you begin to get attached to it. Is your scenario possible? yes. Probable? no. anthony
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