15th April 2003, 9:39 PM
Very well, and I get what you are aiming at. There is no need to make a big deal of this. As I said, there is of course the chance this is true, I just haven't really made a choice on what to think, nor will I until I get some proof. On second thought, I realized I doubt N_A just a bit too much, so it's back to "neutral". Let's just let it go, okay? Why are you so bent on convinving me of this? I'm not out to convince you it's FALSE, just that there is good reason to suspect it of being such.
"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)