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spinoza1111
http://spinoza1111.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/a-note-on-peter-seebachs-vicious-little-tirade/
Peter Seebach has written a vicious little tirade on a computer
author, Herb Schildt which is at http://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcr.html. It
is characterized by a strikingly unethical misuse of logic and a
complete misunderstanding of rhetoric construed as how we say things
to be understood.
One of the most astonishing passages in Peter Seebach’s vicious little
tirade about Herb Schildt’s work is this:
"I am missing several hundred errors. Please write me if you think you
know of any I’m missing. Please also write if you believe one of these
corrections is inadequate or wrong; I’d love to see it.
Currently known: ... "
This is followed by a grand total of 20 errors.
That is, Seebach is using McCarthyist and Stalinist tactics in this
document. He presents 20 errors, some of which are trivial, and others
of which are matters of interpretation. He then apes Senator McCarthy,
who waved an empty sheet of paper in a Senate hearing on “Communists
in the US government”, making reference to a “list”.
Seebach’s statement makes no sense, because he says at the end that
“here are the known errors” but above he says “I am missing several
hundred”.
This can only logically be construed to mean that “there must be
hundreds but I do not know what they are, and I’d like you to join me
in this cybernetic lynching”.
"Little did I dream you could be so reckless and cruel as to do an
injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale & Dorr. It is
true that he will continue to be with Hale & Dorr. It is, I regret to
say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly
inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your
reckless cruelty, I will do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but
your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. "
....
"Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done
enough. Have you no sense of decency?"
- Joseph Welch, Army-McCarthy Hearings 9 June 1954
Peter Seebach has written a vicious little tirade on a computer
author, Herb Schildt which is at http://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcr.html. It
is characterized by a strikingly unethical misuse of logic and a
complete misunderstanding of rhetoric construed as how we say things
to be understood.
One of the most astonishing passages in Peter Seebach’s vicious little
tirade about Herb Schildt’s work is this:
"I am missing several hundred errors. Please write me if you think you
know of any I’m missing. Please also write if you believe one of these
corrections is inadequate or wrong; I’d love to see it.
Currently known: ... "
This is followed by a grand total of 20 errors.
That is, Seebach is using McCarthyist and Stalinist tactics in this
document. He presents 20 errors, some of which are trivial, and others
of which are matters of interpretation. He then apes Senator McCarthy,
who waved an empty sheet of paper in a Senate hearing on “Communists
in the US government”, making reference to a “list”.
Seebach’s statement makes no sense, because he says at the end that
“here are the known errors” but above he says “I am missing several
hundred”.
This can only logically be construed to mean that “there must be
hundreds but I do not know what they are, and I’d like you to join me
in this cybernetic lynching”.
"Little did I dream you could be so reckless and cruel as to do an
injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale & Dorr. It is
true that he will continue to be with Hale & Dorr. It is, I regret to
say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly
inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your
reckless cruelty, I will do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but
your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. "
....
"Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done
enough. Have you no sense of decency?"
- Joseph Welch, Army-McCarthy Hearings 9 June 1954