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From: "Marshall" <marshall.spight@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
Subject: Re: Databases as objects
Date: 22 Dec 2006 09:28:08 -0800
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On Dec 22, 7:01 am, kvnkrkpt...@gmail.com wrote:
> I introduced myself to this group with a little parody
> ...
> At the time, I had a hard time understanding how certain members of CDT
> failed to see right through it.  In my mind, it was utterly transparent
> baloney - how could it possibly be mistaken for anything but parody?

Heh. I did the same thing on sci.math. There are so many nutjobs
over there; it's amazing! So I wrote up a post in which I "proved"
that every odd number except two and "infinity minus one" was
prime. I thought it was a fairly clever use of absurdity, but my
responses were mostly angry debunking. Turns out that when
you're defending yourself from a tidal force of nonsense,
parody becomes harder to recognize.


Marshall