Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:42:03 07/29/99
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On July 29, 1999 at 05:37:19, Herman Hesse wrote: > > >>Hi: >>That's the very same reason why I think that to put so much stress over the >>neccesity to erase "off topic" post seems to me a kind of missplaced arrogance. >>Nothing here is so important and then everything is more or less equally >>important or not important. Hash table, a joke, difference in importance is just >>academical. Even so, considering the purpose of this place, I never posted a >>joke before and rarely and off topic thing, but even a minute post made for >>share a funny history with supposed friends seems too much for certain people. >>Really I was amazed at the degree of flames something that in almost every >>country is just nothing, a passing joke you forget at once, could produce such >>post againts me. > >Why are you flamed, Fernando? Was it you? Here is my 2 cents: They are competing >to find the champion. They have subjectif and objectif methods. They have SSDF, >World Championship, testing games, testing positions, many methods, also >feelings, also reinforce the purchase decision, also friend of programmer, or >programmer make propaganda for fame and glory. This is always argument because >so many methods and no science. Can be no science. Just great murky pool. > >For top ones it is always also so personal. Top ones are in their programs. >Indistinguishable. This is problem for soul. For not so top ones is also >problem. These have Cassius with "mean and hungry look". You know what I mean? >When he turned on you, the young one? I Know what you mean. What I did not know was Shakespeare with some interest in chess computers :-) > >Result is argue about champion goes forever. So easy to make loser. Then >suddenly all turn on loser. Especial all Cassius. > >>Beside, you expect some moderation in the way the erasing is >>made if, anyway, they think they must erase. > >The moderate is eliminate. Where ends it? After all is gone? > >>But on the contrary, If from the >>very first minute you are said that you have a dirty mind and have putted >>something stupid and one hasrh and flaming word follow another because of >>putting such things, worthy, as Bruce said, of the wall of your bathroom, and >>if, even more, when you resign and explain why they say you are performing a >>trick, well, after all that you wonder why are you going to let that people with >>the last word, sensing victoriuous and without opposition. > >When these have no opposition, one will rise from own ranks to be opposition. >Until one left only. Ten green bottles standing on the wall. > >>Finally I have >>learned a lot: the world is a place even more mad than i thought. > >Cannot make winner agreement, but can make loser agreement. Then all feel >better. Only in mad world. > >>Greetings from the madhouse > >You are not mad. Certainly you are not mad. Who knows... If they are sane, I am mad; if they are all mad and I am the sane one, then I am not anymore he sane. fernando >Herman > >>Fernando >>
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