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- From: Gregg Reynolds <greynolds@greynolds.com>
- To: 'Sebastian Rahtz' <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>,cowan@locke.ccil.org
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:58:24 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Rahtz
> [mailto:sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: cowan@locke.ccil.org
> Cc: rgl@decisionsoft.com; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
...
> John Cowan writes:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Richard Lanyon wrote:
> >
> > > Surely Bill Gates is Torquemada?
> >
> > Hardly. Whatever crimes he may have committed against software
> > engineering standards, he has never interrogated any Jews
> or heretics
> > under torture, or turned them over to the U.S. government
> for burning.
>
> different Torquemada. yours was real, this was in a comic
>
And anyway, how would we know?
And anyway, if you're going to pull a reality check on an allegory, would it
be unfair to ask where jews burned by the U.S. government enters into the
Torquemada story? I can't find it in my copy.
Wheeeee! Sorry about the bandwidth...
-gregg
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