Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:07:24 05/06/98
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On May 06, 1998 at 01:02:51, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On May 05, 1998 at 23:07:15, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Are we forgetting the simple and esential thing that cases of obscenity >>are numbered in less than 0,001%? I don't believe such a percentage >>gives room to implement a full institucional answer.Respect to >>anonimity, I truly believes that is also a non-issue: most of people >>here gives his names and, besides, most of this people that gives his >>names are, at least in the chess computer field, perfect anonymus >>people. Look at my case. Which would be the difference if instead of >>putting my name I would put another, like Pedro Ramirez or Mickey Mouse? >>Probably Mickey Mouse is more a person in chess terms than fernando >>villegas. Besides, a name you use in a place becomes YOUR name with the >>same wight as the name you use in civil life. After my stupid joke of >>suicide I felt very ashamed as fernando, but and I would feel the same >>if I had used all the time a surname of any kind. You is what you do, no >>matter the name specially if not legal matter are involved. No way to >>hide behind an screen. > >A lot of us meet each other at tournaments. For instance, although I >live in Seattle, I've met Ed, Thorsten, Chris, Graham Laight, Ossi, >Vincent, Carsten, Stefan Mayer-Kahlen, and a lot of others as well. > >I have raced cars with these guys, eaten very odd food with them, worn >paisley shirts with them, and watched them perform experiments on cans >of beer. > >Just thinking about the food is almost more than I can stand. > >And not only do I read what these people contribute here, I read what >they contribute in the ICCAJ, and in other places. > >And of course I know their programs, too. > >If one of these guys is going to go in for funky anonymous attacks, I >want to know about it, so I can trick him into going on a very violent >ride with me at the next amusement park. > >I always pay for the roller coaster. > >bruce You have probed my point: you have named in your example only known people in this field. Programmers, etc. But the rest of us are, like in the joke of the rabbi looking at heaven, "less than nothing, Oh lord". One of these days I will tell you the complete joke. Fernando
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