28th June 2003, 4:16 PM
Hmm, it would seem it's all a big misunderstanding. Seems he was just joking (I assumed the smily was because he knew it would make people upset), so he says. Hopefully his statement that he no longer believes such stuff is true (though saying what I said was "PC tree hugger stuff" makes me wonder). I'll just put it to good faith that he really was just joking then, but I'll be keeping my i on you!
"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)