Well no, not really. My comment wasn't about free jazz, nor was it about meaning. I simply used a stereotype about free jazz as a tool with which to beat up the

Well no, not really. My comment wasn't about free jazz, nor was it about meaning. I simply used a stereotype about free jazz as a tool with which to beat up the original comment. Your interpretation is yours, and your choice to make a linkage between two usages of the word 'meaning' that weren't intended is also valid. I can't very well attack the original comment based on my reading of it and then ask you not to do the same to mine. That being said, my comment was structured like this: 1. Attention grabber: you're full of hot air. 2. This is why. 3. Here's a more mature way to think about pros, amateurs, and software. I don't believe that the passing reference to a style of music has any real effect on the thrust of my argument. I am slightly regretting picking on free jazz: its fans are, predictably, articulate. Perhaps I should have used Markov chain poetry instead of free jazz, then only the algorithms would be upset.