Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:52:11 07/17/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 23:36:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >Is everybody from Canada intellectually challenged? Or just you? (yes, I know >the answer so this is rhetorical). An interesting question, but I'm afraid the equations are not so simple. Dave Gomboc is from Canada and he is intelligent and insightful. I have seen several other Canadian posters here who are interesting and well worth reading. There are several interesting chess engines from Canada, including Faile (which I find very interesting and well written). But there is a conundrum. Scott Nudds is from eastern Canada, and was one of the biggest net pests to infest news:comp.lang.c of all time. And Sean Evans (who fortunately does not post here anymore -- wink, wink) was a world-class whinging twit and a troll of the lowest order from (you guessed it): Eastern Canada. Can this "twit" effect just be ignored, or is it a real phenomena? Now, some people might measure a couple large outliers like this and say, "Twits are generated by Eastern Canada." but I really think the jury is still out. There are lots of chance correlations like this -- even Democrats being elected when there are a large number of Tarantula spiders found on clusters of imported bananas. This could be just another of those instances. If we wished, we could simply make a study to discover if whinging twits (and especially the net vermin variety) are generated by Eastern Canada. But fortuntately, it's not an interesting enough idea for anyone to bother.
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