The other error in logic is: one cannot prove a negative.

Regards, Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), July 05, 1999

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Let me be the first of many to invite you with my middle finger to have sex with yourself. You can't prove a negative. Fine. Brilliant. You're not the first one to realize that.

It's totally irrelevant, and shows that you are an average thinker, at best. Now quit stinking up posts, or add something constructive. Your choice.

-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), July 05, 1999.

Dear Doomer/Ranter,

Define constructive.

Regards, Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), July 05, 1999.

Dear Andy Pigwidgeon Ray,

FYI, amend is spelled with one "M", credence is spelled with one "E", and "well known" is not hyphenated. If you are going to use "smaller words", you might try spelling them correctly. Perhaps English 101 is in order before you publish your masterpiece.

That being said, when you start numerous threads per day, especially ones like this that are so pointless, you join the ranks of Al-d in showing a complete lack of respect for posters on this fora.

SYSOP - PLEASE DELETE

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), July 05, 1999.

Two threads = "numerous?"

This post was in response to one earlier, in which I was trying to recall basic logic errors. The other post was in response to a request by Linkmeister that I post my predictions for 000101 and beyond.

I did not know that spelling really counted in forums. Or does it only count for those with whom you disagree?

If you don't like what I'm writing, feel free to not click upon it. Don't blame me for subjecting yourself to obviously noted threads from me - that's a little silly, don't you think?

Regards, Andy Ray

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), July 05, 1999.

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Andy Ray,

So what your saying is, you can take the "-"(negative) cable on your car battery and touch it to the "+"(positive) post, and still not prove a "negative"?

-- BiGG (supersite@acronet.net), July 05, 1999.

Historical footnote: Ben Franklin was the guy who decided which pole was to be called positive, and which to be called negative. He knew something was flowing from one to the other (he called it electrical fluid) but had no means to tell in which direction it was flowing. So he guessed. He got it backwards. So electrons have a negative charge, and flow from negative to positive, something that has given new physics students fits for more than a century now.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), July 06, 1999.

RUOK

In the spirit of linguistic correctness which you have instigated, I feel compelled to correct your last post.

In the context of your sentence, you should have used the word "forum", "fora" is the plural. This is only one forum is it not ?

Kind Regards

W

-- W0lv3r1n3 (W0lv3r1n3@yahoo.com), July 06, 1999.

Wolverine, quite right. Incidentally, it never occurs to me to take offense when having my spelling or grammar corrected. Nor does it occur to me to say, "Neener, neener, I spelled it wrong on purpose", as our friend Andy Ray, in response to my corrections, has said on another thread.

Normally, I would not correct another's spelling on this forum (not fora), unless the person had posted an offensively condescending message about resorting to "smaller words" so that the other (presumably illiterate) posters can better understand him. If one is going to make a pompous, self-serving statement about his supposed linguistic superiority, he had best be prepared to demonstrate it...or, be called on it. Anyone making such a statement appears to be begging someone to stick a pin in him to deflate his overblown ego.

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), July 06, 1999.

But Paul - you can say that Franklin got it correct: the electrons (which are negative) are flowing from the right pole (the one he picked) to the left-over (the one he didn't pick) pole. By using electron flow as a current indicator, the navy has long taught the left-hand rule in defining the electro-magnetic laws of current and direction.

Its all relative - and logic lesson(s) will become meaningless in January, February, and March next year.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 06, 1999.

All of Benjamin Franklins' assertions and conclusions should be judged in light of whether or not he believed in a catastrophic Y2K scenario.

If Benjamin Franklin was a "GI," then he should be believed, as having demonstrated his willingness to suborn reason to baseless folly and unrepentant fear-mongering. But, Mr. Franklin could be excused his unruly and unscientific behaviour if, alas, his chief ally desserted him; leaving him leaderless and hurt.

If Benjamin Franklin requested evidence and desired proof, he should have been dismissed outright and insulted. And, he was not allowed to mis-spell or mis-hyphenate any words; nor was he allowed to place punctuation within quotation marks, as this is not very English of him at all; nor is allowed to print dates in a YYMMDD format, as that is not very English or Australian, and does not deserve to have any of his questions answered, regardless of how nice he asks them, because he does not toe the party line.

Regards, Andy Ray

PS - I do not blame those who disagree with me for looking down their noses; I expect this is an instinctive behaviour designed to detect prostate troubles.

-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), July 06, 1999.