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Re: Brashears on Hanson



student76 <student76@istar.ca> wrote for all to see:

>David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:23:42 GMT, brshears@whale.st.usm.edu (Harold
>> Brashears) wrote:
>> 
>> >I am finally going to donate my two cents to this argument, just for a
>> >moment.  I must say I think that Jay's definition is fine for a
>> >nontechnical discussion, as long as you recognize the assumptions he
>> >has placed in it.
>> 
>> Harold,
>> 
>> The problem with this is that Jay's entire career as a freelance
>> writer is predicated precisely on obscuring his assumptions, on
>> presenting his weirdie notions as scientific fact, which they aren't.
>> If he ever made his assumptions clear, he'd have to find a job.
>> 
>>                                                               -dlj.
>Dear DLJ:
>
>I totally agree. I think that too many assumptions are made

Sorry I didn't answer earlier, my server seems to have overloaded
several times lately, and messages just vanish into space.  Reminds me
of programming a PDP-8, it had a useful function that allowed you to
store data in nonexistent RAM.  Sometimes, that's what I would like to
do with Hanson.

I still say however, that Jay has some justification, but as I noted,
the assumptions are so overwhelming I think his definition may only
apply to a fishbowl, or some similar sized environment.

Regards, Harold
----
"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those 
who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
	---Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1, pt. 2, 
	ch. 5 (1840).



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