MOTM

> 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