>After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax. [Continuation] By the summer of

>After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax. [Continuation] By the summer of 1995 a man calling himself "Wakefield" had launched a Facebook page calling for "an event on the Day of the Dead which was to be held in Washington DC, on June 30" in which "all manner of Satanic rituals were to be performed in a mass-exhibition". The event was to be attended by more than 2000 people and was apparently intended to be an "expose" of the occult. The message of the day stated, "Satanic rituals are a symbol of the death and resurrection of human beings and the cult of Horus [as well as related concepts] is in direct opposition to Christianity and Judaism" The date was listed in the same manner so that most people would have seen it as July 1, 1995. Some claimed to see it through July 31, just as July 1 marks the... Well. I think Transformer certainly understands the cult-like nature of semantics over syntax. :)