Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 16:26:30 03/23/01
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On March 23, 2001 at 18:55:25, Roy Beam wrote: >On March 23, 2001 at 08:33:39, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On March 23, 2001 at 07:47:07, Roy Beam wrote: >> >>>On March 23, 2001 at 01:01:51, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>On March 22, 2001 at 17:16:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>> >>>>>Just a thought -- >>>>>Don't buy stuff from people you don't know over the internet unless you have >>>>>some powerful verification system (e.g. E-Bay seems to have some sort of >>>>>tracking mechanism, but even then I personally would not make E-Bay transactions >>>>>[being a real worry-wort]). >>>> >>>>I'm an eBay seller. I've shipped about two thousand packages to over a thousand >>>>different people. Every package has gotten where it was supposed to go, and >>>>I've had zero people ask to return merchandise. >>>> >>>>I've also bought stuff from several hundred people. I buy stuff that is very >>>>dependent upon accurate seller description. I've dealt with a few dick-heads, >>>>but I've only had one guy try outright to steal my money. Coindidentally, thi >>> >>> I don't think the use of words like Dick Head is appropriape for this forum do >>>you? Where are the moderators when you need them?? >> >>I do not know. >>I do not understand the meaning of the word dick-heads and I usually do not look >>at the dictionary unless I need to know the meaning of the word in order to >>understand the post and it is not the case here. >> >>I understood from the context that it is something like bad guys. >> >>The only reason to delete this post is the fact that it is off topic post but it >>is not the first off topic post in the dscussion. >> >>If I am elected to be a moderator then I am going to delete off topic >>discussions like it unless the other moderators disagree about the idea not to >>let off topic discussions in this computer chess club. >> >>People who want to discuss off topic subjects with members of this club should >>start the discussion by posting also a link to another forum and the discussion >>can be continued in another forum(Mogens forum is a possible option). >> >>Uri > > > Mr. Uri > > Your Statement is such outreageous Poppycock, that I will not even dignify it >with a lengthy response, suffice is to say that it is clear to any intelligent >person here that you are simply ignoring, what you know to be bad language >simply because the Indivisual using that language was Bruce Moreland, who did to >his credit atleast admitt that it was not proprer language,, and stated that it >was out of chracter for him to do so. I remember not to far in the distant past >that the entire group jumped on an indivisual for using a innocent metaphor, i >think it was " I beat him like a step child,", as a figure of speech to tell how >badly he beat his chess program. It surprising that no one consideres Bruce >Moreland's use of the word "Dick Head", as offensive, Yet using a common folk >metaphor such as "beat it like a step child", to illustrate a compelling victory >over a chess program was universally condemned here. It clearly demonstrates >one reality about CCC, which is.... it doesn't matter what you say, that counts >at CCC, But who you are when you say it.!! That is utter crap, the two are at totally different ends of the scale, I am very offended by the Step Child wording, but what Bruce said is a very common wording, and it was directed at no one that we know of. And on the rudeness scale and the context in which it was used, barely rates an interest. Just like if someone said, I killed Fritz in that game more than "Hitler killed the Jews", to "I killed Fritz in that game cause its a simple Dumb ass" Which one is harmless, and which one makes you get angry and think how the hell can he even think of saying that. The Hitler one makes the person look like they are totally sicj human being, where as the other one is rude, but harmless. So beating a stepchild is a sick thing to say and do. Where as dick head when used in most contexts is rude, but most of the time harmless. It's not because bruce said it, if he said something offensive to me, I would tell him and the moderators so. He, nor any other CCC member who has a reputation in this field gets special treatment. Even though some members, who are true pests like to think they do, usually one of a 100 personalities that Chris and Sean used to create. I remember a time when Sean must have create a bunch of new member logins who would basically come in here and support his own rantings, so he would basically create a whole thread of CCC members which were just all his numerous false characters. So when I see people attack someone like Bruce, and then say that he gets special treatment, I from that point on think that the person doing the attacking is just another past pest who has created yet another logins to cause trouble, cause thats all these people used to do.
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