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• brucecohenpdx commented on Last time I did this, I lied ...
  there was my big steaming misconception that the internet had the potential to change everything in our political discourse, and for the better. Charlie @ 451: You were hardly the only person to fall for that one. I made that same mistake early in the 1980's after getting heavily involved in Usenet; the same involvement cured me of the belief within three years or so. Sometime in the 90's I had a brief discussion of the probable fate of open hypertext on the web with Andy van Damm, one of the early advocates of hypertext (and a pioneer in computer...
• scentofviolets commented on Last time I did this, I lied ...
  Andyet, look at your last four or five iterations. Are they changing? Or have they reached an equilibrium? You know, like you said they wouldn't? That one group would be marginalized into infinitesimals? I repeat, this is just math....
• scentofviolets commented on Last time I did this, I lied ...
  Sigh. Let me quote you on this one: "They go in both directions, and just as the reactants form products, the products also break down into reactants." Again, your analogy is false, not to mention silly. People do not act like molecules in a flask. And though there is both conversion to and apostasy from conservative religions, the directions are NOT EQUAL. I think this conversation is over; you can't admit to making very obvious, very basic mistakes even when your own models show exactly what people have been telling you. Have fun talking to yourself....
• Charlie Stross commented on Last time I did this, I lied ...
  It was amusing the first time: now it's just tedious....
• Charlie Stross commented on Last time I did this, I lied ...
  A friend introduced us in a pub. Next?...