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You don't like his politics? Fine...although I think you should reflect long and hard on how often government is an impediment to what's right as opposed to a h

You don't like his politics? Fine...although I think you should reflect long and hard on how often government is an impediment to what's right as opposed to a help. If you think anything you listed was "free", you're delusional. :-) You're also laser-focused on one minor incident in a very long, productive life.

DonHopkins 9y ago
I also don't like his hypocrisy. I certainly hope for your sake that you're not in Texas or Louisiana or Florida, up to your neck in water, waiting for the climate change deniers in the government to bail you out. MIT never sent me or POURNE a bill for the all the networking and computer services, personal guidance, tutoring and support we received pro-bono from the MIT-AI Lab staff, so it was free to us, and I for one appreciated it and am grateful. RMS even custom wrote POURNE some free software at his request. You can't put a price on this: "He was immensely helpful to me in those days, patiently showing me things about emacs — his full-screen editor that he wrote in TECO, and the less said about TECO the better — as well as adding some special code to take care of things I wanted to accomplish." https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reviews/bookmonth.html https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reviews/bookmonth.html But they did send me an official MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy that I had to promise to abide by in order to use their machines, which I gladly signed and returned and followed. And POURNE was flushed because he clearly violated it, not because of his politics. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/tourist-policy.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/tourist-policy.html >13. Any use of the MIT ITS machines for personal gain, profit making enterprise, or political purposes is not a legitimate use of the Laboratories' computer resources. >14. These specific statements of policy give a minimum of how a tourist ought to behave to be a responsible user on the MIT ITS system. They are not a complete list of all the ways tourists should or should not behave. Just because some particular anti-social behavior is not listed does not mean that it is acceptable. What a tourist should do is cultivate a good attitude: make a positive effort to anticipate and avoid actions that would interfere with other users. If you cannot tell whether a certain course of action can interfere with any one, find out from someone else before trying it. It's so ironic you're trying to Gish Gallop with tired talking point against big government, which funded the ARPANET, and which is currently busy dealing with a series of natural disasters, while you are trying to smear the MIT-AI lab as a bunch of communists. My failure to respond to all of your posts within your expected time frame is because they're simply not worth responding to. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
- Recurecur 9y ago
  Ah, the "Gish Gallop" argument surrender tactic. Nice! It was clear when I read your initial boorish and tone-deaf remarks on a eulogy thread that you worship at the altar of big government and socialism. Sadly it seems your mind is closed to many of the obvious truths surrounding those entities and human nature. Be sure to keep a close eye out for Putin skulking around! :-)

DonHopkins 9y ago

I also don't like his hypocrisy. I certainly hope for your sake that you're not in Texas or Louisiana or Florida, up to your neck in water, waiting for the climate change deniers in the government to bail you out. MIT never sent me or POURNE a bill for the all the networking and computer services, personal guidance, tutoring and support we received pro-bono from the MIT-AI Lab staff, so it was free to us, and I for one appreciated it and am grateful. RMS even custom wrote POURNE some free software at his request. You can't put a price on this: "He was immensely helpful to me in those days, patiently showing me things about emacs — his full-screen editor that he wrote in TECO, and the less said about TECO the better — as well as adding some special code to take care of things I wanted to accomplish." https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reviews/bookmonth.html https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reviews/bookmonth.html But they did send me an official MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy that I had to promise to abide by in order to use their machines, which I gladly signed and returned and followed. And POURNE was flushed because he clearly violated it, not because of his politics. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/tourist-policy.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/tourist-policy.html >13. Any use of the MIT ITS machines for personal gain, profit making enterprise, or political purposes is not a legitimate use of the Laboratories' computer resources. >14. These specific statements of policy give a minimum of how a tourist ought to behave to be a responsible user on the MIT ITS system. They are not a complete list of all the ways tourists should or should not behave. Just because some particular anti-social behavior is not listed does not mean that it is acceptable. What a tourist should do is cultivate a good attitude: make a positive effort to anticipate and avoid actions that would interfere with other users. If you cannot tell whether a certain course of action can interfere with any one, find out from someone else before trying it. It's so ironic you're trying to Gish Gallop with tired talking point against big government, which funded the ARPANET, and which is currently busy dealing with a series of natural disasters, while you are trying to smear the MIT-AI lab as a bunch of communists. My failure to respond to all of your posts within your expected time frame is because they're simply not worth responding to. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

Recurecur 9y ago
Ah, the "Gish Gallop" argument surrender tactic. Nice! It was clear when I read your initial boorish and tone-deaf remarks on a eulogy thread that you worship at the altar of big government and socialism. Sadly it seems your mind is closed to many of the obvious truths surrounding those entities and human nature. Be sure to keep a close eye out for Putin skulking around! :-)