Re: Netscape download requirements

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, David Sternlight wrote:

> Glad to explain it. I used "tell" in the sense of compel, not
> in the sense of expressing one's opinion. "Joe told us what to
> do" is different from "Joe expressed his opinion of what we
> should do" in the sense I used it.

Really?  But you wrote:

>> nor do YOU get to tell them that they are poor benighted fools
>> who should agree with YOUR views on civil liberties. To assert
>> otherwise is fascism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, pick one.

Oh, I see, "tell," "should" and "assert" REALLY mean compel.  And
what, exactly, would I, the "teller" be compelling them to do?  I 
now understand how you are able to win so many debates.  I guess
I'd just better give up and take THE PLEDGE, you're just too sly
for me.

Sorry Perry, you were right.


 S a n d y

P.S.	For those of you who choose to suffer Sternlight,
	I leave you with this little quote from Lewis Caroll.
	You might find it useful to cite when jousting with
	our sophistic friend:

		   "When /I/ use a word," Humpty Dumpty
		said, in rather a scornful tone, "it
		means just what I choose it to mean--
		neither more nor less."
		   "The question is," said Alice, 
		whether you /can/ make words mean so
		many different things."
		   "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty,
		"which is to be master--that's all."

And now back to David Sternlight for what he really wants, the
Last Word.  :-)

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