IP, forwarded posts, and copyright infringement

[Mike Holmes]

Allow me to summarize:

1) I claim you can't admit an error.
2) You disagree, and ask me for an example.
3) You provide an example yourself.
   3a) Your example dates back nearly three years.
   3b) In your example, you claim you were right all along, and Tim
       was wrong.


Let's take it from there.  Either a) You were right and Tim was wrong,
in which case your example isn't an example of admitting an error,
or b) You were wrong, and Tim was right, and right now, you're showing
yourself incapable of admitting that.

If you'd have left it at "Back in 1997, I admitted that Tim was
right about the G3", you'd have had me.  I claimed you never
admit a single error, and you'd have found a counter example to an
all-encompassing declaration.

But you COULDN'T leave it at that.
You were compelled to add "I turned out to be right"...

And that pretty much confirms what I was claiming to begin with.

If NOMAD here was any good at logic, we'd be beaming him out to
the minimum safe distance right now.


My old man was often heard to quip: "I made a mistake once....
I thought I was wrong, but I wasn't."  

That second sentence is the punch line, Choate.  Just FYI.



On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Mike Holmes wrote:
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> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Mike Holmes wrote:
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> > > > I'm not sure if anyone has made a canonical list of what features defin
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> > > > a crank, but one of them has just got to be a complete inability to
> > > > admit a simple mistake.
> > > 
> > > Example please.
> > 
> > 
> > No problem.  A good example was thoughtfully provided by you quite readily:
> > 
> > >  
> > > Actually you will. Does the string 'G3' mean anything (and I turned out t
o
> > > be right even though I backed down so Tim May would get his way). There
> > > are others.
> 
> But it isn't an example of my mistake. A HK G3 (and the non HK G3 is also
> .308) IS a .308 and not .223.
> 
> Now back to your point, your example please?
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