From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: What is fraud? Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: <3125419787055738@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433079239 References: <778kqn$2b2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77bdqi$9fk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3125045622004774@naggum.no> <77e4e3$jrj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <87d84lpaxr.fsf_-_@2xtreme.net> <3125142331394422@naggum.no> <77hsu3$ckt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3125218436594568@naggum.no> <77j361$es9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3125304204309530@naggum.no> <369E69B9.341@anu.ie> <3125400726258083@naggum.no> <369F8EAC.30C3@anu.ie> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Felix Winkelmann | I think you are a bit too fast in accusing people of fraud who are just | making suggestions or asking harmless questions. feel free to volunteer all the information you want. why haven't you? maybe it's because you don't care about that, either? fraud -- an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon to his legal injury. anything calculated to deceive, whether by a single act or combination, or by suppression of truth, or suggestion or what is false, whether it be by direct falsehood or innuendo, by speech or silence, word of mouth or look or gesture. that's Black's law dictionary introducing the concept. I view time as a valuable asset, answering a question with technical answers that any conscientious person would know are wrong as false representation of a matter of act, and posting under false pretenses as concealment of that which should have been disclosed. asking others to help you when your real purpose is to avoid doing your homework, is fraud. not making sure you know that what you have posted is correct, yet make it appear that it is, is fraud. inducing somebody to help you when you will not accept the responsibility of learning from it, is fraud. in a world where information is becoming a currency, there are a lot of counterfeiters who can't understand that what they are doing is wrong. are you one of those? it looks that way from my point of view. a dejanews search on your fairly unique name returns 5 messages. may I ask why you get so excited about my article that you had to post your message to begin with? you seem to care about meaningless issues, but not about any serious issues related to this newsgroup or the Common Lisp programming language at all. yet you have the right to question why _others_ care? I think that is basically fraudulent of you, too. #:Erik