11th June 2003, 10:39 PM
Pardon? OB1 didn't get an expression wrong, you did. I wasn't even taking sides here. What I said is completely outside of this debate utterly. Had you said something like that outside this thread, I would have called it all the same, only there you would have no way to say I took sides. I mean really, I called someone (maybe OB1, I forget who) for saying the ridiculous phrase "made with currently existing technology" a while back. I know this is exactly what you want me to say, but I will anyway. You really do think only in military terms. In that case, just take me as the uncooperative non-combatant.
"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)