In a message dated 2/27/01 4:56:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Typically, it's the manufacturers statements that I discount first.
Tom C. >>
I one the other hand, am likely to discount limited ~personal~*, (thus
~anecdotal~) experience first or altogether. As a former PJ, I distrust
manufacturers, politicians (or anyone else blowing their own horn).
*There are exceptions to that rule. There are people whom I trust to tell the
truth always. Not many, but some. There are others whom I've cultivated who
will, if prodded gently, will relate the truths they know and for no personal
gain or aggrandizement.
With them I listen, for their advice or observations have time after time
proven to be money you can take to the bank and deposit.
*Lacking other substantiated evidence, one can or should use the hard
evidence at hand to begin make ones own comparative analysis, using common or
accepted paradigms or tables or other measures lacking suspicious origin.
Lacking ~any~ evidence at all? I do my standard PJ "Five W" analysis: What,
When, Where, Why, Who. That search most times leads me to a conclusion, while
not acceptable to everyone, nevertheless providing evidence that can stand on
its own.
But this and nearly every list is populated by those who take the old
bromide: "everyone has a right to their own opinion" to its extreme end. This
list is populated by those who find a word, a phrase and fastening on it, go
off on a tangent sometimes wholly unrelated to the thread under discussion:
re: scanning Fuji Superia 400.
Some, Tom included, find that phrase or word that sets them off, and having a
sense of adventure, or simply to challenge me, ask me questions about that
word (or phrase), questions again totally unrelated to the thread.
It is epidemic however, that need not to input or contribute to the thread,
but to pick at words, or phrases. To be disagreeable or disagree because one
can be.
Mafud
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