• To: xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: The "what is XML" permathread revisited -- was Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 12 Apr 2004 22:00:55 -0700
• In-reply-to: <7C3366F9-8C8B-11D8-B357-000A95CCC59E@x...>
• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE03F9F5FD@h...><p06010213bc9ccc117c22@[192.168.254.88]> <407978F4.3030706@l...><p06010202bca0330ebfec@[192.168.254.88]><7C3366F9-8C8B-11D8-B357-000A95CCC59E@x...>
• Sender: ari@f...
• User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

Michael Champion <mc@x...> writes:

> I remember a college
> history teacher who had a bit of fun tripping up the professed
> Christians in the class with their inability to distinguish the
> Revealed Truth from the various historical heresies.  "Sorry, you
> would have been burned at the stake for holding that opinion."   I
> wonder if the believers in the Revealed Truth in the class remember
> that session as clearly as I do 30 years later... I certainly came
> away with a lifelong non-interest in making rigid distinctions about
> intrinsically fuzzy concepts]

I just hope you won't try to burn /Rusty/ on a stake for his view :=)

Ari.

-- 
Elections only count as free and trials as fair if you can lose money
betting on the outcome.

• References:
  • RE: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • RE: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
    • From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
  • Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • The "what is XML" permathread revisited -- was Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
    • From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>

• Prev by Date: RE: XML Binary Characterization WG public list available
• Next by Date: RE: Fast text output from SAX?
• Previous by thread: Re: The "what is XML" permathread revisited -- was Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
• Next by thread: Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread