POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Standard National Stupidity : Re: Standard National Stupidity Server Time
7 Sep 2024 11:22:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Standard National Stupidity  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 20 May 2008 19:46:04
Message: <483362bc$1@news.povray.org>
alphaQuad wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>> alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>>> SNS is what makes propaganda and [poisonous drug commercials passed off as
>>> medicine] WORK.
>>   It's also what makes conspiracy theories work.
>>
>>   How many people believe a claim like "the government has not told us
>> the truth about <some subject>" simply because someone says so? That's
>> what I call stupidity.
>>
>> --
>>                                                           - Warp
> 
> Agreed that would be more than stupid, just cause someone says so, my point
> exactly. As for the "conspiracy", I would only expect the (overwhelming)
> evidence of profit motive to be weighed in an unbiased approach.
> 
> If its "MY government" there seems an automatic bias to trust without question.
> The evidence speaks for itself.
> 
> 
> Honestly I expected more childish responses. Congratulations and thanks for the
> intelligence.

Personally, I like http://www.bash.org/?4753

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.digitalartsuk.com

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