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T. William Wells bill at twwells.com
Mon Oct 16 06:19:15 AEST 1989


In article <143 at .rsp.is> orn at rsp.is (Orn E. Hansen) writes:
: In article <18227 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, jas at postgres.uucp (James Shankland) writes:
: > Why don't you try slaughtering a goat over your terminal, and letting the
: > blood drip into the keyboard?   I had problems once, and *that* solved it.
: >
: If people BELIEVE that will solve there problem, who are we to say
: othervise?

Reasoning individuals, as opposed to superstitious savages.

All too many "modern" humans are.

: > Randomly trying things, in the absence of an understanding of what's
: > really going on, is no way to solve a computer problem.
: >
: Randomly trying things gives you a multiple perspective to observe a single
: point.  Sometimes called SCIENCE, and used to gain new ways and methods to
: help humanity on it's path through life.

Ignorant fool.

Randomly trying things is the farthest thing from science.

Scientists try new things, but they do so because they have reasons.
:
: How would you othervise come to know, what isn't known?  to understand what
: is misunderstood?

By thinking and directed activity, which you obviously don't believe
in. And are clearly not accustomed to.

Followups have been directed to alt.flame.

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