[AT] Truth on the Internet and elsewhere

[Mattias Kessén]

And we're part of the internet and write what we feel like/believe in. That
mostly mean our own opinions, then it's for the reader to choose wether to
believe or not. There are sure things over here that goes for truth that
isn't considered that way on your side of the pond and the opposite around.
I don't call you fools for that (though I've found some of you a bit silly
from time to time, but I don't say that and even if I did you could choose
not to believe it!) I might even found some opinions or truths a bit funny
and that's fine. But after all we mostly learn something and have a laugh at
it. But it would take a lot more for me than someone having a different
opinion on carburator icing or wind chill to call that person an idiot. If
so certain of having right there must be better arguments to prove I'm right
than that.

My humble opinion (It might be right or wrong someone could tell me to put
it where the sun don't shine, but it's mine)

Mattias

P.S. (On the verge of blasphemy) Fist God created earth then he rested. Then
he created man and thereafter rested. Then he created women and since nor
him or no man has ever rested.


2007/12/10, Larry D Goss <rlgoss at evansville.net>:
>
> LOL!  That's one of the pitfalls of the Internet -- you can't tell
> anything
> about the truth of the material that's on it.  Wikipedia is particularly
> bad
> about allowing myths and mis-information to be propagated.  I ran into
> this
> nearly 10 years ago when trying to verify what material Gutenberg used
> when
> he invented moveable type.  There are thousands of websites on the
> Internet
> devoted to the supposed documentation of that invention, but if you
> examine
> them closely, you'll find that a majority of them have been generated by
> the
> students in middle school classes as part of a science project.  Somehow,
> I
> find it hard to trust a group of 12-year olds to accurately report the
> facts.  After several days of searching, I finally found a website
> sponsored
> by Gutenberg's home town in Germany that has it right.  They are doing the
> only thing they can do in the face of the mountains of mis-information
> that
> is out there -- they are sponsoring their own site that tells the story
> the
> right way, including the legal problems he ran into because the
> authorities
> found him hording lead and accused him of alchemy to turn lead into gold.
> Sixty years or so ago, it was even stated in textbooks that Gutenberg's
> original invention used hardwood for the letters.  That's not so, but it
> is
> an example of how far stories can veer from the truth.
>
> So when people, including some on this list, hold to myths and old wives'
> tales that fly in the face of the laws of physics, chemistry, other
> sciences, and history, there are others of us who will cry "foul" very
> loudly.  It's the only way we have of trying to assure that the threads we
> produce have any credibility.
>
> When "The DaVinci Code" was published, we had a dinner guest who is an
> historian.  He got very worked up over the inaccuracies and blatant lies
> that are in the book and was ready to take on the world to correct
> them.  I
> stopped him as he was getting ready to leave after an evening of dinner
> and
> conversation and I said, "Dan, it's a NOVEL!"  He thought about it for a
> moment and then finally said, "Oh."
>
> We're always very close to gross mis-representations.  I understand that a
> movie opened this weekend across the country that had a very poor showing
> at
> the box office.  It is now predicted that the movie will not ever make
> enough money to pay off the $300 million that it took to produce it.
> Apparently, the public saw the premise as so bizarre and unbelievable that
> they aren't even bothering to go see it.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JTakemoto at wildblue.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Carburetor Icing (Off Topic)
>
>
> > Well its been fun but lets get on with something new.
> > The funny thing is all of the stuff that I have posted in the last few
> > days has come from Websites that I have copied and pasted, so you you
> guys
> > are not arguing with me but with the experts who post all this stuff on
> > the Web.
> >
> > One thing that I can't understand is why the wind can freeze water in
> your
> > hand but not in a radiator. Hey I got this from the websites its not my
> > words but theirs.
> > J.
> >
> >
> >
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