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You are pwnd when you begin saying left paw, right paw, left paw ...

<chancho> thanks, I like "Stay". ;)

OK, where was I? <hms> the "entitled" personality is a little hard for me to understand too, but I suppose it's just a variety of sociopath, perhaps more by nurture than by nature. And yeah, they don't have to kill people to fit the bill.

But I'm not sure if this applies directly to the current study. ;) That is, PZ <may> be an "entitled" character, but he may also just be bloody rude and conceited without being "entitled"; and even if he is (and there are varying levels to that, too), it's still inconclusive whether that's directly relevant to this incident.

Anyway, to get to possibility 2 -

<2 - for the reasons he said, and he honestly didn't see the conflict of interests there.>

As <b> and <zarg> saved me some work by pointing out, :) there *was* a precedent here, that may well have made PZ believe that his expectation of being on the team would be acceptable. The anger in his posts at being opposed in this seems to be real, and fits in with this scenario (though it fits with "entitlement" as well). Plus, as I have already posted in several places, he honestly wouldn't see a conflict of interests if, as the overconfident tone of his posts shows, he never considered that the team might actually put up a decent fight, and maybe even outplay his wife - he just wouldn't ever have thought that there might arise a situation when he knows something she's not considering, and his integrity <could> be put to a test - and because he made it clear that he hadn't considered that, he left team members rightly feeling that he was simply not prepared for such a test.

Because this second model is consistent with all of PZ's posts and behavior, including the <open> registering part, and here everything makes somewhat more sense than in the other model, I consider it more likely to be correct.

But (and as I have also posted elsewhere already), none of this means that his expectation was in fact reasonable - it wasn't, and all he would have needed to do to learn this was to read up on the team's history and the now open to the public consultation pages of its previous games. That neither of them had bothered to do so is even more remarkable considering that they have both been members of cg.com for quite a while... so I'd say that this is a case roughly parallel to the principle in <Ignorance of the Law Does Not Excuse>.

I still think that "entitlement" plays a role as follows:

"In 1939, the year that World War II began, John Dollard and his colleagues published <Frustration and aggression>, one of the most influential books on aggression ever written. This book sets forth two major propositions, which taken together are called the <frustration-aggression hypothesis>: (1) Frustration produced by interrupting a person's progress toward an expected goal will always elicit the motive to aggress. (2) All aggression is caused by frustration"

(...) bladibladibla 2 pages why the theory got debunked which I won't all quote :D (...)

"<Frustration-aggression Theory Revised> After bearing so much criticism, the frustration-aggression hypothesis seemed torn and tattered. But Leonard Berkowitz's (1989) reformulation put the hypothesis in a new perspective. Accoing to Berkowitz, frustration is but one of the many unpleasant experiences that can lead to aggression by creating negative, uncomfortable feelings. It is these negative feelings, not the frustration itself, that can trigger aggression."

So! there you have it!

That is my first try at a "non-pictographic emoticon."

I don't actually know the conventions and truth be told I don't even know where all the correct thingies are on my keyboard.

My "plan" is to keep trying in a random fashion =}=

How have You been? Still have Your sights directed westward?

Good plan, as long as you are prepared to add a verbal explanation to each and every one! ;) Heh... how do you manage to be online at work anyways? Presumably "at work" doesn't mean in the middle of class...? Between classes? Or what else do you do there that couldn't be done at home? :)

<brankat> Hi there! I'm fine. :)

<<...and hoping to immigrate to Canada eventually...> You seem to have been saying this since at least April- 02-2004 :-) >

You see, at work my monitor faces the wall so I guess I'm allowed to do anything I want on the internet during the grueling seven hours per shift.

I could do all of the work at home except the teaching.

Hey look at this one again =}=

See the nose in between two half open eyes? It looks like a mole's face.

A-ha... :D but I still don't get it: <where> do you have this monitor? Classroom? Staff room?

Do you actually teach a few hours every day, or do you have days you don't teach at all, and if so do you still have to go in? Just curious. :)

<crawf> hehe... if I see the boss anywhere around, I can pull up a real one! The trick is paying attention to one's offline surroundings enough to notice who goes where in the first place! ;s

BUT - for anybody following these things - I now have my full, unlimited, internet access officially back at work... they gave up on trying to keep me away from the net! Muahaha... :p

<Jess> =}=

Heh, ok, that sortof works, but the thing is that smilies are mostly interpreted sideways, since most of them are "drawn" that way: :) ;) :p ;p =) :s :\ :| :o etc.

There's the rare exception, like o_O which is either a "shock and awe" or a "quizzical squint" smiley, but there aren't many such.

So if we take the =}= as a relative of the =) (wide-eyed enthusiasm / admiration / something like that), that is <sideways>, it may be taken to mean, for example, "I'm enthusiastically growing a mustache AND a beard!" ;p

Could obviously make all kinds of variations; e.g. ~_o 'Stop talking, it is 6 am, so I can only open one eye yet.'

Actually truth be told I find it hard to imagine a slacker job- if you don't mind the company of hordes of kids who can't speak any English.

<Annie> my computer at work is in the staff room.

Since Korean high schools are organized on a military model (quite literally) there are actually five (yes five) separate staff rooms here, organized by rank.

I have no rank but for some reason they put me in the Grand Piano staff room, where I get plenty of exercise bowing 700,000 times a day. You have to bow to anyone who has a higher rank. And you have to get it right. The higher the rank the lower the bow, and if you bow too low they think you are making fun of them.

So there aren't that many people in my staff room, and like I said nobody can get behind me so what's on my monitor is a secret.

<dakkie> hehe...

Oh, I forgot this one:

<brankat: <Is there a membership fee for Procrastinators' Club? :-) >>

Well, I think being a serious Procrastinator is actually quite an expensive hobby, but membership fees? That would require collecting them regularly I'm afraid... nah. ;p

<Jess> heh, the bowing thing sounds a lot like the Japanese, which of course is not a coincidence at all. :D

Also I forgot to mention- yesterday I was trying to find a link I had, but lost, which tells an anecdote about Teichmann convincing David "Quail" (heh) to draw a game so they could finish early and watch a wrestling match together.

So anyways I plugged in some keywords in Polish and your forum came up on Google, but it didn't direct me to a particular page, just the "present page."

Any ideas on this? Ring any bells?

I'm kicking myself for not copy and pasting the anecdote now.

I found it on <Tomasz Lissowski's> "Chess Vistula" on-line chess journal, but my browser(s) have great trouble marking any of the pages on it.

heh

Japanese? We know of them here but mainly for the wildly popular "Japaghetti Brand Instant Noodle" and for raping and pillaging us for centuries.