Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

[JoeHill]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote: 

> JoeHill wrote:
> > CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote: 
> >   
> >> Dave Mason wrote:  
> >>> I am not without a sense of humour.
> >>>
> >>> However, I find this thread to be sexist and misogynistic.
> >>>
> >>> Ada Lovelace deserves a place beside Boole and Babbage as the original
> >>> pioneers of what would eventually become computer science (there are
> >>> those who believe she understood Babbage's work better than he did).  To
> >>> demean that memory by a cheap rif on a name shared with a porn star is,
> >>> well, let's just go with disappointing.
> >>>
> >>> It's no wonder that people at large still look on computer geeks as frat
> >>> boys, or that young women mostly see no respectful place for themselves
> >>> in computer science.    
> >> Dave, kudos to you for saying what I had been thinking. I would not be
> >> quite so harsh with Linda Lovelace though. I read her story many years
> >> ago. She was apparently a victim of an abusive man who exploited and
> >> coerced her into doing things that she normally wouldn't have done.
> >> Unfortunately, it's not exactly a unique story. The Wikipedia page about
> >> her <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace> has more information.  
> > 
> > I find both of you have no sense of humour, and sentence you both to be
> > hung by the neck until you cheer up.  
> 
> It's interesting to watch how much further you can stick your foot in
> your mouth. Your original "joke" wasn't funny and now you compound it
> with another stupid "joke". Hint: a decent person would just say, "On
> second thought, I guess that wasn't so funny, I'm sorry." instead of
> attempting to deflect attention towards his critics.

Except that:

1. The original joke was _not_ mine, though I did express my surprise at the
cheekiness of it. I just didn't react like a puritan crank, which seems to have
offended you.

2. I'm _not_ sorry, because I don't give a rat's ass if you were offended.

You really should pay better attention, this is not the first time you have put
words in my mouth and then attacked me for it.

-- 
J
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