After takin' a swig o' grog, Ezekiel belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> "Chris Ahlstrom" <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:oFu4l.11974$M01.9082@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> Is that all you read in your newspaper? The headlines?
>
> I rarely read the paper these days. This past Sunday we picked up a copy of
> the paper but otherwise it's been at least a year. I can get more up to date
> news from multiple sources on the web. Why would I want to read what the
> news was at midnight the day before on some dead trees?
We get the paper, but all I read is Dilbert and the Sunday ads.
Too tedious!
> But back to the point... I don't only read headlines but when I do read the
> headline it's supposed to accurately represent what the article actually
> says. If there's an article with the headline 'Scientists discover life on
> Mars' then dammit... that better be the jist of the article. It's simply a
> lie if the article is nothing more than 'Researchers think there's a
> possibility that life once existed on Mars.'
So you think Roy is a National Enquirer?
(Anyway, I think Roy can always improve what he does. Better to have no
news than fake news and a sensational headline. I tend to agree with his
leanings, though -- I don't trust Microsoft much anymore. In fact, if you
read Lawrence Lessig the whole consumer computing industry, including the
internet, is rapidly coming under complete business control.)
--
Uncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the calculation.
-- Blaise Pascal
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