18th May 2004, 8:11 PM
I tried making it clear what I meant, but you kept up, so I said "forget it, I don't care enough to get into a whole thing about it". Why does that annoy you so much?
"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)