From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 12 19:30:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CC614EF8 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from ppp5835.on.bellglobal.com (ppp1224.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.225.72]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA27985; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by ppp5835.on.bellglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA20096; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:11:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:11:01 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Brett Glass Cc: Jay Nelson , David Schwartz , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field Message-ID: <19990912221101.A20062@ppp5835.on.bellglobal.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990912145908.04af73a0@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990912193601.04ad0da0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990912193601.04ad0da0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 07:37:40PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 07:37:40PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > It's not "socialist propaganda." It's a form of argument known as "reductio > ad absurdum," which shows that an idea is absurd by taking it to its logical > conclusion. All theories in accord with common sense are absurd when taken to their logical conclusion. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message