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Aaron Sloman (A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:

: The rest of us can safely ignore all this flak and continue with our
: research, developing and testing explanatory theories which extend
: and deepen common sense concepts instead of being hide-bound
: (intellectually crippled) by the limits of a particular linguistic
: framework beloved by a subset of 20th century philosophers.


: The rest of us can safely ignore 
: research, developing and testing 
: and deepen common sense concepts 
: (intellectually crippled) by the 
: framework beloved by a subset of 



What's with that Mentifex guy who writes with perfect margins,
sometimes for pages at one go?  

Longley seems to be a BOT, or *perhaps* a BOT with another BOT
editing the results a bit,

but Longley's use of cheezy 80's style  add   spaces  to get a
nice   right  margin   at the  expense   of really   ugly text

just makes Arthur "I'm A Bot And So Are You" Murray look even-
more amazing.

There is also a "schizo genius" titled "The Dave" who does the
perfect-margins thang for pages and pages...  and his style is 
much less "stiff" than A.T.M., and so he shows that whether he
is a BOT or just some guy who thinks PERFECT RIGHT MARGINS are
hilarious, especially if you never mention how you achieve the
feat of 5 posts a day times 2 pages per post times 25 lines of
PERFECT RIGHT MARGINS WITH NO     SPACE  DIDDLING   EVER EVER,
it is possible to write very natural-sounding prose doing this.


The other time I screamed and hollarred about this strangeness
I was written a few posts back by some BOT?/guy at Stanford U,
who tried to convince me that this was all perfectly normal an    d
he did text in triangles and pyramids, just to show (off?) how
easy it was... but his return address was something like:

      whoever@something.turing.stanford.ai.edu
                        ^^^^^^

So who knows.  The nation who elects a BOT president will be rather
formidable, don't you think?  Who would want to argue with something
that has PERFECT RIGHT MARGINS?


VRAI  4:20 27jan97  "internet == turingtet == urinetest == irritant"
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