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Subject: Re: Do you have any idea of what you are talking about?

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ponyboy

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Date Posted: 19:47:57 03/25/02 Mon
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Re: Do you have any idea of what you are talking about?" on 10:47:25 03/18/02 Mon

>..... I probably have spent a lot more time on this
>than you have, and this is what, so far, I came up
>with.

You have spent longer than I? What makes you think this? And if you have......it is a shame you don't have more thought-provoking ideas.

But I'm open to change my opinions if I come
>across credible alternatives. You are free, of course,
>to accept and/or reject any portions of what I post.

You haven't offered any opinions....so what am I to reject or accept?

>This is a HUGE field, and many people only look at a
>very small part of it at a time.
>..... Was it Newton who is supposed to have been at
>the seashore with a small (something?) in his hand,
>and pointing to it said that this is all the knowledge
>we have, while out there, the ocean, is the remaining
>knowledge to be explored [quoted from memory, check it
>out!]?

Check what out?......I agree with the analogy. Again, you quoted some text and never really took the idea anywhere. What now?

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Do we have any idea of what we are writing about?	QUITTNER	12:51:26 04/11/02 Thu