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Subject: Re: The Diepeveen Challenge

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:12:40 01/15/03

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On January 15, 2003 at 10:06:27, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On January 15, 2003 at 09:43:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2003 at 01:01:24, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>
>>>On January 14, 2003 at 15:47:55, Luis Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 14, 2003 at 15:28:37, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 14, 2003 at 15:03:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On January 14, 2003 at 14:57:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'm still waiting.  Vincent, you claimed "you could easily beat a 1997 program
>>>>>>>on 1997
>>>>>>>hardware."  I have a 1997 program and 1997 hardware waiting for you to prove
>>>>>>>that
>>>>>>>statement on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have mentioned this more than once after you made the outrageous claim.  You
>>>>>>>have
>>>>>>>_never_ responded.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Is this another case of "I put my foot in my mouth, now I am going to 'go
>>>>>>>silent' and
>>>>>>>hope everyone forgets?"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I don't forget that much...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Damn it Hyatt let it be. Why does it bother you ? You are not half the player he
>>>>>>is and I believe he can do it. Crafty is not a good blitzer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>Wayne
>>>>>
>>>>>Pffff, sissy. Come on Vincent, the whole CCC (except for some sissies) is
>>>>>waiting!
>>>>>
>>>>>Bas.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Bas.
>>>>
>>>>Why does this sound like a schoolyard fight?  How old are both of you?  Can you
>>>>not learn to put your differences aside?
>>>>
>>>>Personally I'm ashamed to see _both_ programmers acting like this...
>>>>
>>>>I think even the Nintendo games message boards are a little bit more civil than
>>>>this...
>>>>
>>>>Maybe you should both lower your fists, and your ego's a bit too...
>>>>
>>>>Reguards
>>>>Luis
>>>
>>>Geeze, I found a sensible, sane person. I echo your statements. Infact I have
>>>been telling Dr Bob Hyatt he is conducting himself in very poor taste for a for
>>>a man of his stature.
>>>Dr Bob forget about Vincent !. He isnt harming  you is he ? I have said it
>>>before and I repeat my self. You are to be setting an example of conduct and
>>>respect with your position. That is my feeling anyhow.
>>>Thanks
>>>Wayne
>>
>>
>>I'm old enough, and well-known enough, that you can draw conclusions about my
>>behavior with little difficulty.  If you think it wrong to challenge someone
>>that makes
>>completely wrong statements every day here, then I suppose that is your opinion.
>> However,
>>it is not my "style" to let false statement after false statement pass.
>>Particularly when many
>>of these "false statements" are directed toward me.  I don't see a thing wrong
>>with a "shut up or
>>put up" when a clearly false statement is made, and there is a trivial
>>methodology available to
>>prove the falseness of the statement.
>
><snip>
>
>There is nothing wrong with the way Bob and Vincent communicate with each other.
> As I said before, their method of communication is "somewhat unconventional"
>but they do communicate quite well.

If you say so.  I feel like I am talking to "Mr Kimball" on the old "Green
Acres" comedy TV program.  :)


>
>Vincent is no saint!  He recognizes Bob's fatal flaw, his vulnerability, and
>keeps on prodding Bob over and over again without mercy.  Bob is no saint
>either, but this requires no explanation. : )
>
>The rest of the CCC community should let them have their "fun."  No real blood
>is spilled.
>
>This reminds me of a married couple I know.  They've been married more than 30
>years, and they "fight," verbally, all the time.  But they will never divorce.
>They have adjusted to each other and seem satisfied with the arrangement.  No
>physical conflict is involved in that case either.  So why should anybody try to
>intervene?  It's their marriage.
>
>There is more than one way to skin a cat.  There is more than one way to live a
>life.  And, there is more than one way to communicate on a bulletin board.
>
>Bob and Vincent are "married."  Let no man tear asunder this extremely weird
>"marriage."


Thank goodness for dramamine...

Otherwise I would be puking right about now.

:)



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>Bob D.



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