Author: Peter Davison
Date: 09:39:06 09/07/00
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On September 07, 2000 at 12:31:10, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On September 07, 2000 at 12:15:08, Peter Davison wrote: > >>The forum referred to _is_ the people. It is not a forum, it is a club. >>Different. > >Correct, but implied in my message. > >>If you said the people were inclined already to be disinterested in everything >>unless there was something to be gained, that the 'gain' took the form of >>positive advantage for oneself, or negative disadvantage for the 'opponent', in >>classical chess zero-sum style, then I would agree with you. > >That was what I was trying to say in not so many words. > >>If you see this, then why are you here? > >For the same reasons as you are, I imagine. Observing (and laughing). > Ah. The soap-opera syndrome. But this is a pale imitation of the real thing. Don't you have "Big Brother" or equivalent in Denmark? The people are just as dull, but you get a video feed as well, there's a sexual angle, plus psychologists telling you what to think, and you can vote to zap one each week. Very popular format, apparently. >Mogens.
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