Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:48:39 01/27/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 06:08:56, jonathon smith wrote: >ChrisW is waiting for Bruce to come to the other necessary conclusion that a >belief in freedom of speech is only valid if you are prepared to argue it for >those that you strongly dislike and who have opinions that you strongly disagree >with. I think that there is a good chance that Chris wouldn't last very long here, but the circumstances of that ban disturbed me and I wanted to give him a chance to mess up and go out by the numbers, or to not mess up and stay. Not everyone wants to listen to this kind of stuff all day long, so I wanted to put a neat package around the whole situation, and allow it to be described as an accident, a flawed logical construction, or (at least resort) as an act of obvious vindictiveness, if that is what it turned out to be. I figured that if I could do that, I could send a few pieces of email, quote a few posts, and there would be an obvious course of action, you'd be back, and one or more people would start yet another a big thread about impeaching me. The Blatchford eruption diminished my enthusiasm. That account went out by the numbers, and could logically be determined to be Chris, since the last "Foxy Times" post was nearly simultaneously posted by Chris in r.g.c.c. I figured, fine, he wants to do that, he can sit tight for a while. Now we come to the point of my post. I don't give a damn about Chris' computer chess viewpoints. He wants to argue about slow search versus fast search, or using the eval function to guide the search, or speculation, or any of that stuff, I'm not remotely bothered. It would never occur to me to do anything other than *encourage* that, certainly I would have no interest in persecuting someone for that. What I object to are personal assaults on *people*, and these seem to go along with the package. bruce
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