4th March 2003, 4:17 PM
That's just it, I don't know. Aside from that one thing you posted earlier I haven't the slightest idea when they have been right or wrong, and that could have been dumb luck for all I know. Now I'm sure you have a long list of when they have been right, but to post that would mean I'd just have to take your word for it. That's not how I deal with information, that's how people spread urban legends (hated defects of humanity that such memes are). Now I never once said they ARE an unreliable source. I have no opinion on their reliability. This alone means I can't take what they say at face value. They may be incredibly reliable, but I would be forced to actually surf around the site and read it to confirm that for myself, see? Now then, you may say "well then read it!". To this I respond: I'm too lazy to read it. With that in mind, my standard response regarding news from any site I haven't confirmed as pretty much reliable is "interesting if true". I mean, do I really HAVE to believe it? This isn't Peter Pan here, I'm pretty sure what I think has no effect on the outcome.
"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)