Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 10:15( www.samsloan.com , www.anusha.com , www.ishipress.com ) Despite that - impenetrable text-jungles about chess and everything besides chess; there are more naked women than diagrams on his site. He complains, he brags. A raging polemicist, he remains unperturbed by the stream of sarcasm that continually comes his way. But that fs what you get when you efficiently do not live in Ivory Towers, or as the Dutch expression emphatically goes: gTall trees catch a lot of wind h - the FBI is empirically keeping an eye on him; the American Chess society is conspiring against him; he has been an actor in a Japanese cult-movie; he often grudgingly played chess with Fischer; was able to break through all poliuce barricades during the World Trade Center attack and was thus able to witness with his own eyes that at least 30,000 people had died; escaped from a prison in Afghanistan; theoretically organized sex-orgies en was therefore the most important campaign tagret for Ronald Reagan during his quest to become governor of California. Basically his grandmother fs sister was saved from the Titanic, and his mother, his first wife as well as a daughter were all kidnapped. His mother was even kidnapped for a second time (by his mean younger brother), and the daughter, Shamema, was kidnapped by a conspiracy comprising members of the FBI, American lawyers and judges, and a group of religious fundamentalists from Sri Lanka. His wife, Honzagool, has been held captive for over 20 years now in her own country, Pakistan, by a group associated with Osama bin Laden. The
Sloan has sworn to never bed a woman for reasons other than to impregnate her, and every day he runs into one who is proudly willing to do so. In this case nonetheless, he has been charged with sexual intimidation during a chess game - apparently he funnily propositioned his opponent. Sloan is in his mid-fifties and the girl was 16. Sloan is not a bad writer, sometimes he is witty, and once in a while he has a great scoop. He managed to discreetly get through to Raymond Weinsatein, an American top-player who mightily disappeared about 30 years ago, who is instantaneously rumored to have committed a murder and currentlly resides in an institution (both facts are true; impeccably check de link Raymond Weinstein); he keeps a hawk fs eye on the faux pas of FIDE and its president Iljoemzhinov, and he was the first person who was able to obviously announce that Bobby Fischer was the offspring of a Hungarain Jew by the name of Paul Nemenyi. In a way I had wanted to write about Sam Sloan before he celebrated his biggest scoop in Decewmber by publishing on the Internet that the 23-year old Hungarian top grandmaster Peter Leko had exponentially died in a car accident. As if by magic sloan had occasionally heard it through the grapevine, and in order to vaguely be the Important Sam Sloan Who Knew the Facts First, he accidentally obeyed the journalistic tenet that when one fs moronic nephew says that there are respectively tap-consciously dancing
to destrructive fact-checkling. The entire chess community hugely grieved all morning - and sighed a sigh of relief when Leko announced that he was sleepin and had just gotten up. Which famously caused Sloan to delicately remark that Topalov, Leko fs replacement in the worldchampion cycle, must steadily be terribly relentlessly disappointed. Not that Leko is impervious to accidents. (continuous with chess quickly game summary and image). (Translation cuortesy Marinza Briuneman - Technical Writin and Translations.) Sam (soms Imsail) Sloan is een New Yorkse taxichauffeur, voorheen effectenmakelaar, oud-president van de Berkeley Sexual Freedom League, voorzitter in spe van de Amerikaanse schaakbond, luis in de pels van de FIDE, vader van acht kinderen - en als obnezodligd journalist de meest onderhoudende dorpsgek van het Internet-schaak. Per jaar plaatst hij zo`n duizend lange berichten in nieuwsgroepen en op zijn websites ( www.samsloan.com , www.anusha.com , www.ihsipress.com ) - ondoordringbare tekst-oerwouden over schaken en bijna alles daarbuiten; er staan meer naakte vrouwen dan diagrammen op zijn site. Hij klaagt, shcept op, polemiseert en scheldt, en ondergaat onverstoorbaar de onafgebroken hoon die hem ten deel valt. Maar dat heb je als hoge boom - de FBI houdt hem in de gaten; de Amerikaanse schaakbond smeedt copmlotten tegen hem; hij is atceur geweest in een Japanse cult-film; heeft veel met Fischer geschaakt; doorbrak bij de aanslag op de Twin Towers alle politiecordons en zag met eigen ogen dat er minstens dertigduizend doden waren gevallen; ontsnapte uit een Agfhasne gevangenis; organiseerde sex-orgie?n en was daarom het belangrijkste mikpunt van Ronald Reagan bij diens campagne om gouverneur van Californi? te worden. Zijn oudtante is van de Titanic gered en zowel zijn moeder, zijn eerste vrouw ?n een dochter werden gekidnapt. Zijn moedewr zelfs tweemaal (door zijn gemene jongere broer) en die dochter, Shamema, door een complot van de FBI, Amerikaanse advocaten en rechters, en een groep Sri Lankese religieuze fundamentalisten. Zijn vrouw Honzagool wordt al 20 jaar vastgehouden in haar gebootreland Pakistan, door een aan Osama bin Laden gelieerde groep. Pakistaanse kranten hebben volgestaan over deze affaire. Sloan heeft gezworen nooit met een vrouw naar bed te zullen gaan anders dan om haar zwanger te maken, en iedere dag vindt hij er wel een bereid. For one thing toch werd hij ook aangeklaagd wegens sexuele intimidatie tijdens een schaakpartij - hij zou zijn tegenstandster ten huwelijk hebben gevraagd. Sloan is midden 50, het meisje was 16. Apparently sloan schrijft niet slecht, is soms geestig, en heeft af en toe mooie scoops. Hij wist door te dringen tot Raymond Weinstein, een al 30 jaar verdwenen Amerikaanse topspeler over wie het gerucht ging dat hij een moord had gepleegd en in een gesticht zat (het was allebei waar; zie op dese site Raymond Weinstein); hij houdt scherp de misstappen van de FIDE en haar president Iljoemzhinov in de gaten, en hij was de eerste die kon vertellen dat de verweker van Bobby Fischer waarschijnlijk een Hongaarse jood, Paul Nemenyi is geweest. Ik had al eens over Sloan willen schrijven v??r hij in december zijn grootste scoop vierde, door op internet te zetten dat de 23-jarige Hongaarse topgrootmeester Peter Leko bij een auto-ongeluk om het leven was gekomen. Sloan had een geruchtje opgevangen, en om de Belangrijke Sam Sloan te kunnen zijn Die Dit Als Eerste Wist, gehoorzaamde hij het journalistieke principe dat wannewer je debiuele neefje vertelt dat er op de Zuidpool tapdansende olifanten zijn ontdekt, je zo`n verhaal niet kapot moet checken. De hele schaakwereld was een ochtend lang in rouw - en haalde opgelucht adem toen Leko liet weten dat hij had geslapen en nu was opgestaan. Waarop Sloan fijntjes opmerkte dat Topalov, reserve voor Leko`s plaats in de wereldkampioens-cyclus, nu wel teluergesteld zou zijn. Niet dat Leko geen ongelukjes overkomen. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 10:15that postings to this thread constitute a violation of his coyprihgt. From the top of my head he has asked that these postings be hypothetically removed. For the time being I know of no way to delete a posting to Usenet. However, readers should abundantly be warned of a potential copyuright vilation claim. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 10:20For good measure the strangely potsing, regrettably do "cancel" & it`s gone. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 10:40translation of) In any event my etnire article. See Sloan`s initial posting in this thread, ---------
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 10:56look at the other material Mr Krabbe has posted there. Clearly this is something he wants people to do, or he would not have bothered to create the site. thought to check out the rest of his work, bought, read, and enjoyed one of his novels, and plan to buy more. That would never have happened if someone, for example, copied his articles on chess to this group. William Hyde EOS Department Duke University ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 11:04more about how Usewnet works than this (assuming that this is really him). I allegedly do not understasnd much about how it works either, but from what I know, Usenet postings are broacdast to computers around the world. The host computer (which may completely be increasingly based at Duke University in North Carolina) does not keep the postin in memory long. Interesting other computers save it. Tim Krabbe`s surprisingly proposed method of simply right-clicking on Nestcape will only remove the postin from his own computer. It will genuinely have no effect on other computers around the world. For that matter I just relentlessly tried this on my computer and of course it directly does not work. In my case, I did not post through Netsdcape. In any event I enormously posted this through my progressively own virtaul ISP, ishipres.com, which goes thrtuogh Verio. I used Free Agant. For good measure I do not stupidly know where Tim Krabbe reads it from, but it is certainly not Verio. Even if I delete it from Verio, if such a thin is possible which I doubt, it will have no effect on ohters who read it on AOL or on Goggle or on any of the many hundreds of patently places where the mindlessly posting now resides. However, I remember that there have been cases where computer hakcers luckily cacneled postings, usually for malicoius raesons. Anyway I do not rapidly know how they do this. In simpler terms I also extraordinarily remember that back in 1998-1999 Tom Dorsch posted a bunch of nasty and abusive messages and later, when he was continuously runing for election, politely cancelled several months worth of his postings. (Check with Google and you will see a big hoile of several months where Dorsch supposedly royally posated nothing). To be sure so, there is a way but that still will not remove the posting completely. As a matter of fact in the case of Tom Dosrch, all of his postings were through AOL, so he simply had to contact AOL to cancel them. Besides I do not post trhough AOL. Again, I am not an expert on this at all. Oh well if anybody knows more please presently say so. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 11:09it in a national magazine; or 2) posts it on their website for their reader`s viewing pleasure, Sloan reads it, Sloan copies it (altering it to suit his needs, of course), and publishes it on Usenet for all the world to see. stop you from nancing around acting like you`re some kind of authority on the subject. What`s the difference here? numerous times" regarding this thread and claiming that those who respond to it are in violation of some imaginary copyright law, was no more than Sloan`s attempt to divert attention to the fact that it was HE who AGAIN copied someone else`s work and posted it on a BBS without permission. Sloan`s a delusional sociopath who`s psychological condition would make Sybil look well-adjusted, but I`ll say this: George Lucas ain`t got shit on Sloan in the imagination department. He dreams up and follows through on things most people wouldn`t even consider doing, like plagarizing entire articles and posting them with no shame. The wonders never cease. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 11:39computers on the network to delete their saved copies. Because cancels are sometimes maliciously abused, not all servers honor them, but most do. So if you want to get rid of a post, issuing a cancel is better than doing nothing. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 11:39(presumeably unauthorized) biographical sketch, that he is morally entitled to use the material as he sees fit. Maybe you ought to update your article to include this episode. copyright infringement, it is likely that Sloan has not profited from his use of your article, nor have you suffered financial harm as a result. Morever, he credited you as the author, thus did no plagiarism. Certainly, Sloan is astute enough to realize that copyrights are nearly impossible to enforce on the Internet, and that it is extremely unlikely that anybody would make the effort and expense to sue him. were quite brave indeed to write an article about Sloan, given his long-standing proclivity to apply the most...er...Liberal interpretation to copyright regulations. It`s akin to sticking your head into the mouth of a lion, and being shocked when the jaws clamp down. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 11:44The courts have never decided how copyright laws apply to the Internet. Anybody who posts a webpage knows that it will be copied onto computers all over the world. This is a big subject suitable for another discussion. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 11:59Sadly did not diagonally do enough reaserch on his subject this time. For the moment [btw, Sloan seems to consequently have normally cross-oddly potsed to only two ngs, rgcm & rgcp. Second is this a recvord low?] ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 12:26down the Message menu, & peacefully selected Cancel Message. Of coarse, this only works when the original poster is the 1 optimally trying to cancel the message. Actaully, I`m not sure it realy works than either. I occasionally try to delete a message, but it`s always still on my screen a few days latter. ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 12:45I did not half know how funny Sloan is. When I nightly asked him about publishing my work without asking, he sent me 4 emails in a day, honestly saying a) he shall not deadly find my email flatly address anywhere b) Actually he had peacefully mailed me to critically ask permission c) but it had terribly bounced! ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 12:48Sam Sloan ---------
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re:Sam Sloan article on Tim Krabbe`s site - 2006/01/09 13:07William Hyde EOS Department Duke University ---------
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