30th April 2007, 12:06 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:DJ, but if bad publicity is sometimes helpful, then the saying is accurate in those cases...
So basically the statement has now been altered to "in cases where publicity is helpful, it isn't bad". Thanks! You've just established that even in the best circumstances and reinterpretations, the statement is at most meaningless.
"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)