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So... you weren't talking about iron clad ships? 
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MehGerbil wrote: I was down voted
I don't think Lounge messages can be downvoted. I believe they can only be upvoted.
/ravi
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I've a -16 in my voting history. 
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Perhaps one of the lizards dropped off his shoulder and onto the keyboard?
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Ah, I just read KEP's explanation.
/ravi
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I guess you hit a nerve. 
I could rant a bit about this subject but I'll just refer to Jeremy Falcons answer instead, he expressed it much nicer than I ever would be able to.
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Just when I was starting to almost idolize you for your courage in coming-out, and standing up for the right to public display of your prosthetics ... now, you post this. Well, I guess it's almost always better to never idolize someone.
Is it possible that by taking up Lounge space with a new thread for griping about a meaningless rep-wound from either the abuse-report-knife, or the spam-report-knife, you are throwing gasoline on the flame-war bonfire that keeps trolls warm in the winter of their discontent ?
Jes' sayin' ...
cheers, Bill
p.s. I have a regular phantom down-voter (with a high-rep) on QA using some clever algorithm to avoid giving a clue to who they may be. My blood has learned to coagulate faster.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Bill,
The best way to interpret my posts is to read them with the understanding that I'm constantly working towards unity with all of my CP brethren and... er... cistern.
Perhaps I'm an idealist who trusts the nature of others too freely?
If that is a fault, sir, and I pray that you're not of said opinion, then I must confess that it is a fault I wear proudly! Even then I'm willing to set these trivialities aside for it occurs to me that my foil and your phantom voter may be one in the same. We are bedeviled by some dark foe of the greater good I'd wager.
Best to you,
-MehGerbil
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The game's afoot!
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Yes, afoot, and may the most surreal carry the day, but what if this is not athlete's foot, but the kind of rash that turns some sphincter inside-out ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Not athletes foot, Dr Woodruff; it was the footprints of a gigantic hound...
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OriginalGriff,
You presume to know too much, sir, and I think perhaps you make a joke.
I do not see how any man can gather what you claim to have gathered from so little evidence!
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"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically...Let me see if I can make it clearer. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically."
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What a great quote ! I had to go run look it up immediately.
As that quote digested, my mind came up with a "resonance" to the debate on the virtues of declarative vs. procedural programming languages.
Could it be that one barrier to learning to think in F#, for example, could be that it requires a level of some kind of "cognitive comfort" with reasoning from "result to process" ? I'll excrete that here as a very "weak hypothesis."
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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That is well and good but I shall comment on one of your observations nonetheless.
You said something about “...the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” while others observed "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
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And that was the curious incident...
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Yes, I own the books and the UK Sherlock Holmes on DVD (Jeremy Brett).
You are my brother from another mother...
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I also like the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock[^] series - updated well to the modern day. But the US version Elementary[^] is the usual US "take something good, move it to the USA, throw away the good stuff, and fill it full of adverts" approach.
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I agree that twisted facts are a poor substitute for twisted theories ! As Niels Bohr said:
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958. Quoted in "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Interpreting Lounge posts: why does the bristling sweaty hairiness of that feel chillingly oxymoronical ?
Is that because I have never thought of Lounge posts as being interpretable based on some metaphysical assumption(s); or, because the act of visually perceiving the post's glyphemes, translating them to phonemes [1], then to morphemes, and, finally, to "inner comprehension" of some form ... seems, to me, ipso facto interpretation ?
Of course, I can't discount the "set-setting" discriminatory filter I may have created that may lead to selective perception of all Lounge posts as being kind of like pimples on angels, compared to QA posts being warts on demons, and CP articles evaluated by a generally more favorable view.
I must decline the invitation to assume the godlike power of inferring your character, and your fundamental intentions pro-social and/or sociopathic. Were I to pick up that telescope, I am afraid I would see only my own defects, magnified.
All I can say is: if I think you are having fun on the Lounge, I am happy, happy, happy. If you are not having fun, I may be concerned, or, I may not be, but I am not unhappy.
cheers, Bill
[1] I omit consideration of the actively debated topic of whether the human primate innate language-engine can involve, in whole, or in part, some form of "direct look-up" from glypheme to morpheme without some form of "activation" within the internal representation of phoneme-space.
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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MehGerbil wrote: The best way to interpret my posts is to read them with the understanding that I'm constantly working towards unity with all of my CP brethren and... er... cistern.
Just for future reference, the best way to interpret my posts is to assume I'm an a$$hole.
Jeremy Falcon
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A warning to that effect comes up on my screen every time I open one of your posts.
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Then my work here is not in vain.
Jeremy Falcon
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BillWoodruff wrote: My blood has learned to coagulate faster.
you clot!
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