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To: StockHawk who wrote (33401)	10/19/2000 10:52:52 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Of course, even when Bruce answers we'll still not know for sure. Is Bruce a human, is he a human pretending to be a post-bot, is he a post-bot, or a post-bot pretending to be a human? Never ask a question whose answer is meaningless. - Fred

To: StockHawk who wrote (33401)	10/19/2000 11:46:19 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 54805

OT : Talk about a no-win. Hey, thats the way mr market is treating me these days too :-(

To: StockHawk who wrote (33401)	10/20/2000 2:36:47 AM
From: chaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Stockhawk, This problem is multifaceted, much more than a simple either/or, on/off. I personally believe in "Bruce". He's an ex-patriot, living abroad by choice or circumstance, perhaps harboring some deep secrets, such as the real ins and outs of San Francisco, of which I suspect he has given us only hints from his total, clearly intimate, knowledge. He may have abscounded with someone's IP, or perhaps his money, or maybe even his bandwidth, and thus needs to keep a low, or present a low, profile. What better way to accomplish this than to obscure and conceal your true identity than by stealing your own. Leave the country with your own passport, pursue your own profession, travel with your own wife and family, even maintain a household with them. And pretend they've been hijacked, you are who you say you are, but pretend that's false, and that even they are not who you say they are. No amount of probing will unmask the lie because there isn't one. You become your own best "cover." Man, that's true genius, precisely what I would be expecting from my man Bruce. For those who really do think Bruce isn't Bruce, there is no similarly elegant explanation. All this cyber-bot, post-bot, AI algorithims, group identity fraud is just a bunch of hooey. Far too complex. Bruce, the real Bruce, prefers it simple. I'm telling you, man.... Bruce is Bruce, no matter what he says. Chaz

To: StockHawk who wrote (33401)	10/20/2000 3:34:07 AM
From: Bruce Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Imagine being the guy posing this question. Either he is challenging a real person to prove he is real (in which case he is going to look like a fool when he finds that Bruce is in fact real and the cyber-bot stuff was a big joke) OR if Bruce is a cyber-bot then this guy is wasting his time arguing with a bot!!! Talk about a no-win. I seem to be facing this wall with the clueless jduffy here at SI as well. I guess the old saying "The lights were on, but nobody was home" applies in both cases. However, clearly enough energy has been wasted on the subject and the old Sultan of "I hate threadbloat" Swat - MR. TEKBOY@CreativePost'sRUs.blahblahblah - is the only reason all this bloat came about on our favorite message boards. I call it the ultimate in divine justice. What's your next trick, Tekboy? Spreading the rumour that BB's tights are on, but nobody's home.... <ggg> BB