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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Sorities, Properties and The Extensional Stance
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In article <850785995snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <jqbE2Hq7s.7EK@netcom.com> jqb@netcom.com "Jim Balter" writes:
>
>> In article <850704743snz@longley.demon.co.uk>,
>> David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >What  I  was  looking  for  here  was  support  from  folk   with 
>> >complementary skills, not a trial by fire....
>> 
>> But since you didn't find it, you decided to make everyone pay for it for 18
>> months or more.  For how many years will you continue trying to shove this
>> stuff down people's throats?
>> -- 
>> <J Q B>
>> 
>
>As  long as it takes for people like you to learn I guess.

Even if you are right about everything you say, *especially* if you are right
about everything you say, you are incredibly incompetent as a techer, so this
will take you a very very long time.  Why not give up now?

>And  I 
>wouldn't take yourself, or the other misguided 'contributors' who 
>you  consider to be of like mind, to be as representative of  the 
>AI community as you would *like* to think.


No, I'm not typical, as I have repeatedly told you, and this is *not* "the AI
community", this is just one particularly strange newsgroup.

>I  am  quite  confident  that the evidence  supports  what  I  am 
>"shovelling", which is why I find it so easy to keep  referencing 
>it.  I'm  also confident that one of the reasons,  if  not  *the* 
>reason,  why so little is achieved in newsgroups such as this  is 
>simply because folk like yourself do not understand the degree to 
>which  you are engaged in nefarious rhetoric, and can't  just  be 
>*talked*  out of it.

If I can't be talked out of it, then you are an incredible idiot to
keep trying.  I take it back; you are an incredible idiot in any case.
-- 
<J Q B>

