RE: [sl4] JKC, are your views actually amenable to correction, ever?

From: Bradley Thomas (brad36@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 01 2009 - 13:22:32 MST


>Since that's the Guide number, I have to ask if you're being flippant
before I put in that kind of work.

How would you even know that he wasn't being flippant in any denial of being
flippant!?

Brad Thomas
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org] On Behalf Of Robin Lee
Powell
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:15 PM
To: sl4@sl4.org
Subject: Re: [sl4] JKC, are your views actually amenable to correction,
ever?

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:07:24PM -0800, John K Clark wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 "Robin Lee Powell" <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> said:
>
> > How many computer science Ph.D.s would I have to get to say, in
> > writing, that that's utter nonsense for you to thoroughly
> > re-evaluate your position?
>
> 42

Since that's the Guide number, I have to ask if you're being flippant before
I put in that kind of work.

-Robin

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