Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:46:46 -0800
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From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: SI in the news
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At 03:26 PM 1/22/2002 -0500, Ian Whitlock wrote:
>Charles,
>
>Don't confuse lying with fact. Lying is a state of mind. Consider the
>sentence:
>
> The world is flat.
>
>We think the sentence is false, but that does not mean the person saying it
>is lying. She could easily be stating the truth as she has observed it.
>
>Your executing SAS programs do not lie, however they may not be correct, and
>even the correct ones may have bad data.
>
>Now if SI could sell an English spelling/gramar checker that worked to MS...
>
>These days I delete about 9 out of 10 e-mail messages automatically and
>believe that most of them are lying.
No wonder you never reply! <vbg>
>Thus the simple algorithm, always lying is right a good deal of the time.
Isn't that the definition of "bureacracy", something setup to deal w/ most
of the day-to-day mundane stuff, leaving human intervention for the outliers?
Geez, "Ian the Bureacrat", I never .... <g>
>I wonder what the buyer gets if the program is wrong once,
Maybe they'll be invited on stage for the SUGI Opening Ceromonies .... and
this year's enterprise award for Truth is ...
>or is that just a bug.
Laugh as I/we may, the ability to remotely descern "truth", however, may
not be that far off ...
IIRC, *they* (whoever that is <g>) now have the ability/technology/knowlege
to drive down the street and to *see* the phosphors from your computer
screen (sort like 'auras from the 60's ... what's your aura's color?) such
that *they* can now glom passwords, keystrokes, etc. (this screen aura
evidently hangs for some finite period of time - like a human's aura where
*they* can tell who was in a room moments after a person left).
As such, soon, if not already, they most likely will be able to also *see*
galvanic skin responses, etc. - sort of like a remote/invisible lie
detector test, eh?
Looks like Winston Smith was right to be worried.
Out
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