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Subject: Re: For a group of people who claim to be intelligent......?

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 17:54:00 11/06/03

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Perhaps you are not reading right,friend. When I say authority, I mean the
intellectual authority <to judge others>(because we were talking about
intelligence). I was not refering to your civil freedom to groan and bellow and
make animal noises. Whatever floats your boat!


On November 06, 2003 at 16:17:36, James T. Walker wrote:

>On November 06, 2003 at 13:56:25, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>Since you have explicitly expressed doubt about the intelligence of your
>>respondents in the title of your piece, then it is taunting and also presumes
>>that you have the authority ( implicitly ) to do that. That is the basis of why
>>I wrote to you about it. This is the sixth post. Has it sunk in yet?
>>
>>And when someone writes to you in a public forum where you posted, you also
>>demand that I declare my 'status' in order to have a conversation. It says more
>>about you than me,friend.
>
>Maybe your reading comprehension is not so good.  If you read my last post again
>you will see that I admited that it was intended to be taunting.  So why are you
>stuck on that line?  Also I don't need any authority to express my opinion here
>except that granted by the charter.  The only thing that has sunk in is your
>inability to understand what my post was about.
>I questioned your status since you seemed to be indicating that you were not
>intelligent.  I demanded nothing.  Last of all, I'm not your friend.  You assume
>too much.
>Jim
>
>
>
>
>>
>>On November 06, 2003 at 09:10:21, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On November 06, 2003 at 01:25:26, margolies,marc wrote:
>>>
>>>>I suppose that i am more logical than I am intelligent. For instance, i am still
>>>>wondering if you are giving me the 'conditional' bug off or the 'unconditional'
>>>>bug off....
>>>>If you don't want to take responsibility for the taunting predicate of your
>>>>post, that's fine. But it can't give you the authority to persuade others.
>>>>BTW no one bickered except you. Tony Hedlund and SSDF came around to our
>>>>position while you were still back biting me.
>>>>Please turn your 'Ponder' to on and read some of the posts here as well as
>>>>writing them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I have not asked for nor assumed any authority of any kind.  I simple expressed
>>>my opinion which I am entitled to do here.  If you have a problem with that then
>>>take it up with the moderators.  I'm happy that the SSDF will test Chessmaster
>>>9000 as it is sold.  I was never against that.  I only pointed out that there
>>>was a lot of whining about the way they were testing TheKing engine.  I also
>>>pointed out that it's the SSDF perogative to test it any way they wish.  TheKing
>>>engine with the "SKR" settings is thought by many here to be one of the best
>>>setups.  I'm personally interested in it's rating with the General.ctg book.  If
>>>you found my subject line "taunting" that's fine.  It was meant to be.
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>On November 05, 2003 at 09:09:18, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I will ask you again.  Do you claim to be unintelligent?  If so the post does
>>>>>not apply to you so bug off.  If so it applies to you if you were one of the
>>>>>people complaining/bickering about the way SSDF is testing TheKing engine.  I
>>>>>expressed my opinion on the way it was being tested by SSDF.  Again, if you have
>>>>>a problem with the subject line, then that's your problem.  You seem to be the
>>>>>only one.  Too Bad.
>>>>>Jim



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