On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Mike Holmes wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone has made a canonical list of what features define a crank, but one of them has just got to be a complete inability to admit a simple mistake.
Example please.
Go back through the archives and you'll see lots of examples where Choate makes an error. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt on many of them and assume that he exaggerates to make a point. When someone calls him on it, rather than admitting that he overstated his case, he makes it worse. The quoted material at the bottom of this message is a good example of the start of one of these.
Give me an example of overstating my case. The reality is that I've in good faith answered, or at least attempted, to the best of my ability. I've explained my thinking in detail. Where are your rebuttals? I wait with hesitant expectation of your enlightenment...
If you read the archives, you'll find examples of pretty much every frequent poster to this list over the years posting a retraction or correction for some minor detail. You won't find any from Choate.
Actually you will. Does the string 'G3' mean anything (and I turned out to be right even though I backed down so Tim May would get his way). There are others. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------