Re: Can you find anything wrong with this solution to the Halting Problem?

From: David James Polewka (joseywales_at_outlaw.nospam)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:15:10 GMT

 "Peter Olcott" <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote:
>
>> "Peter Olcott" <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote
>>
>> > You are able to correctly refute what I am saying
>> > without even reading a single word.
>>
>> That is exactly so.
>>
>> I hate to see a grown kook cry; take it easy.
>>
>> That's one of the amazing things about being able to
>> understand computer science, by having invested the
>> effort such understanding takes. Once you have read
>> through and understood a proof that some hypothesis
>> holds, you no longer have to waste time reading
>> drivel from obsessed persons who cannot be bothered
>> to learn to understand computer science, proving
>> that the opposite hypothesis holds, and ignoring
>> every kind attempt by wiser heads to point out just
>> where their errors lie.
>
>I usually never resort to giving back the rudeness
>that I am dealt, but you are a presumptuous ass.

Peter: Kent, a former submariner, is suffering from
hyperbaric hydroencephaly. He needs to dry out.
Here he is on the cover of a national magazine:

http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/377179/1087925662147_kent.jpg

Caption: "Don't they know who I am? Oh, the trumpets are calling!!"

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