Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:45:18 05/21/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 22:05:42, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On May 20, 2000 at 18:09:23, James Robertson wrote: > >>On May 20, 2000 at 16:51:26, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>Hello, my name is Samuel B. Luddite and I disagree with the participation of >>>computers in national and international tournaments. It is a well known fact >>>that computers have no soul and , like the animals are just things. >> >>To be honest, I have _never_ heard anybody, luddite or not, use this argument. I >>think that if you substituted the _actual_ arguments GMs use instead of these >>straw men, this post would look stupid. >> >>James >> >Mr. Robertson, > >This post is designed to be stupid. For Gods' sake man where is your sense of >humor? Smug decision makers have done some pretty stupid things because they >would not listen to that little voice of the common man. Wars have been fought >over stupid things. Forest fires due to "controlled burns" have been set off >because a person with "superior understanding" ignored others who by his >estimation knew less. > > >Snobbish individuals with high-horsepower intellects that have the answers to >the world's problems when they are young soon realize as they age that they >exist in a very imperfect world. > Just an addenda, dear Tim: snobbish people that think they have the answers for all rarely have high-horsepower anything, except proud. Humour is something akin to intelligence, but things are such that some people believe it is akin to mortal seriousness. For them to laugh at a joke you must advertise it, like in TV shows, with an screen saying "laugh". Then they laugh but stil they does not know why they should. With a laugh in my big mouth Fernando >The best that can be done in many cases is to just make jokes about unchangeable >situations. > > >Chess is life, > > >Tim Frohlick
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