Functional quantum computer?

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sun Jan 7 20:17:24 PST 2001


Choate: Moron or obstinate?

The truth is somewhere in between. As Choate knows, many news sites
keep URLs active for quite a while. Wired.com URLs from 1995 still
work, for instance.

And search engines aren't always updated or don't always work that
well. Etc. Like I said, a little of both.

-Declan



On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:47:38AM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> Hi Meyer,
> 
> Unfortunately there is no guarantee the URL is stable either.
> 
> The point being you've got the topic and they have a search engine.
> 
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
> 
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> > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
> > 
> > > http://www.sciencedaily.com
> > 
> > Choate, you're either a complete moron or the most obstinate person I've
> > ever encountered. One would expect sciencedaily.com's website to change
> > daily. Hence the name. Now, when someone reads this message of yours two
> > weeks from now and wants to see what it is that you were talking about,
> > they're not going to be able to find it. Quantum computing will have been
> > replaced by stories of monkeys trading sexual favors for food in the front
> > page headlines.
> > 
> > "Well, I have to do it this way or Tim will yell at me for posting HTML"
> > you say.
> > 
> > Wrong. Post a direct link. Everyone's happy. You don't look stupid. We all
> > win.
> > 
> > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/01/010105075630.htm
> > 
> > Now, is that so hard?
> > 
> > 
> > - -MW-
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