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Subject: Re: Grandmaster Sam Luddite on Computers.

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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