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From: "Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_novoa@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: THe OverRelational Manifesto (ORM)
Date: 20 Apr 2006 07:38:40 -0700
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>So I propose a thought experiment: what if there
>were a person who was smarter than either you or I, and also
>at the same time, better educated than either of us. Better able
>to discuss logic, type theory, formal methods, and relational
>aspects of same than either of us. And, at the same time, this
>person was horribly rude to people on occasion, when he thought
>their ideas were unsound. This would be a person who better
>embodied the Bob Badour ideal than even you. I propose that
>if your thesis about rudeness being okay was sound, then you
>would really like this person.

This is what Bob is to me, and I like him even when I am the deservedly
scolded guy :-)


Regards
  Alfredo