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On 1/12/2012 5:52, Invisible wrote:
> Of course, if instead of inserting something obviously bogus, the person had
> made several small factual edits which look superficially plausible, you
It would take about an hour. You don't think academics do experiments like
this and publish their results.
> This is why Wikipedia will /never/ be inerrant. ;-)
Of course not. But it appears to have errors at about the same rate as
normal published paper encyclopedia.
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On 1/12/2012 9:45, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Which, logically, means it can be trusted. To be wrong, that is. :)
That's why I correct people who say Microsoft or Apple can't be trusted.
They can certainly be trusted to do whatever they can get away with.
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On 1/12/2012 8:26, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Or, archaically, that it's a really happy carefree game.
You're thinking Red Vs Blue, which is based on Halo. ;-)
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:15:32 -0500, Warp wrote:
> > "The song of the forest is in perfect harmony. If a single note is out
> > of place, the elves will find its source."
> I'd have guessed Tolkien if I hadn't read later messages.
If a quote mentions elves, it must be Tolkien? Is he the only known author
who has ever written about elves?-)
> "Insanity is a gradual process. Don't rush it."
If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say it's by the Joker, but that's the
only fictional character I know of (or remember) who deals with subjects
of insanity... It's probably wrong.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 1/12/2012 9:45, Jim Henderson wrote:
> > Which, logically, means it can be trusted. To be wrong, that is. :)
> That's why I correct people who say Microsoft or Apple can't be trusted.
> They can certainly be trusted to do whatever they can get away with.
I'd say that's rather nitpicky. The colloquial expression "can be
trusted" implies the continuation "to do the right thing" (for their
customers, in this particular case).
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On 1/14/2012 9:34, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> On 1/12/2012 9:45, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Which, logically, means it can be trusted. To be wrong, that is. :)
>
>> That's why I correct people who say Microsoft or Apple can't be trusted.
>> They can certainly be trusted to do whatever they can get away with.
>
> I'd say that's rather nitpicky.
Yes. But it's usually in response to people complaining that Microsoft isn't
trustworthy because they reliably do selfish things, or something. My point
is "yes, rely on that rather than complaining of it."
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:33:07 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:15:32 -0500, Warp wrote:
>
>> > "The song of the forest is in perfect harmony. If a single note is
>> > out
>> > of place, the elves will find its source."
>
>> I'd have guessed Tolkien if I hadn't read later messages.
>
> If a quote mentions elves, it must be Tolkien? Is he the only known
> author
> who has ever written about elves?-)
Of course not, but cognitive processes tend to take shortcuts, and
association "elves" with "Tolkien" is such a shortcut.
>> "Insanity is a gradual process. Don't rush it."
>
> If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say it's by the Joker, but that's
> the
> only fictional character I know of (or remember) who deals with subjects
> of insanity... It's probably wrong.
Yep, it is. Your cognitive shortcut didn't work either, it would seem. :)
Jim
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:10:41 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> On 1/12/2012 9:45, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Which, logically, means it can be trusted. To be wrong, that is. :)
>
> That's why I correct people who say Microsoft or Apple can't be trusted.
> They can certainly be trusted to do whatever they can get away with.
Absolutely.
I think, though, when people say they can't be trusted, it's a shortcut
for "they can't be trusted with my information" or something along those
ways.
Jim
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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Which gives me an idea: What are your favorite quotes? (They don't have to
> be film quotes. Anything goes.)
Ok, here's another one:
As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Journalism is the first rough draft
of history." Or possibly it was Thomas Edison who said that. I'm
pretty sure somebody said it, because you often hear journalists
quote it in an effort to explain how come they get everything wrong.
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On 13/01/2012 05:34 PM, Warp wrote:
> The problem with quotes in the modern world is that it's trivial to write
> them in google and get the source in a few seconds. There's no challenge
> anymore.
Interestingly, typing "quod enim mavult homo verum esse id poteous
credit" yields few if any hits, despite being a very well-known quote.
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