> Sorry for your bad day Paul, but this is not a great reply to these posts.
May not be great, but it's certainly appropriate. I work in a similar
industry to Paul and I'm dogged by these constant, scientifically baseless
speculations that wind up becoming "fact" very quickly.
This is how we end up with the beliefs that your toaster will shut down in
the year 2000, that viruses can invade your computer with it shut off and
disconnected from the outside world, the belief that one can see the great
wall of China from space with the naked eye, the coriolis effect can be
seen in any sink or toilet, coloring the edges of CDs with a felt tip
marker makes them sound better, Windows' calculator exhibits the Pentium
FDIV bug by doing subtracts, and tapping the side of pop cans will prevent
it from exploding on you, and $10,000 per foot speaker wire is better at
conducting electricity than $0.30 per foot speaker wire, but are all
completely false. We may as well teach our children that the earth is flat
and the moon is made of green cheese, because it makes the same amount of
sense.
I'm just sick of seeing this kind of crap because of mob rules ignorance.
I totally see where Paul is coming from on this, and agree 100%. STFU If
you don't know what you're talking about. Feel free to ask, but don't
spectulate/assert. In this specific case, it's starting a rumor that can
be destructive to Paul's business and our ability to purchase those
products, for no good reason other than "it sounded good". Don't repeat
something if you can't verify it from someone who actually knows WTF is
going on.
-->Neil
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Neil Bradley "If you owe the bank $100, it's your problem. If you
Synthcom Systems, Inc. owe them $100mil, it's the bank's problem." - JP Getty