5th June 2006, 6:51 PM
That's true. But I'm talking about ideal conditions here!
GR: In ideal conditions the clock would WORK!
DJ: Yeah well, I mean ideal for my analogy! It is at least technically possible for a broken clock to be right twice a day!
GR: But in not so ideal conditions a broken clock won't be right at all, which means...
DJ: That in terms of my analogy, in not so ideal situations Jack Thompson is NEVER right!
GR: In ideal conditions the clock would WORK!
DJ: Yeah well, I mean ideal for my analogy! It is at least technically possible for a broken clock to be right twice a day!
GR: But in not so ideal conditions a broken clock won't be right at all, which means...
DJ: That in terms of my analogy, in not so ideal situations Jack Thompson is NEVER right!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)