From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 13:44:43 MDT
In a message dated 4/17/2003 11:17:36 AM Central Standard Time,
charleshixsn@earthlink.net writes: But I do know that even in the US local
news frequently has vastly different opinions about things (not only about
what it means, but about how important it is, and even about what happened).
And this new rarely shows up anywhere on the web. So I suspect that our
knowledge of things which we only see in translation is ... did you ever play
the game "Telephone?" Did you ever read the Eric Frank Russell story titled
"Top secret"? If so, you know what I mean, if not, I can only say I expect
that a lot is ... transformed ... during the generational copying. I'm not
implying any motive, or even direction to the transformation. Merely a
degradation of accuracy that verges on the extreme, this in a channel that
didn't start out as any shining example of a low noise transmission medium.
Charles,
Let me repeat what I had said before. Go read, please. A good prime
source beats any amount of theorizing.
Ron h.
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