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Re: (OT) The giant steps down before the crash
de hummingbird 06/18/2006 10:04
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:01:52 -0400 'Al Klein'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:16:39 +0100, hummingbird
><OPRBMDQMZNLV@spammotel.com> wrote:
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>>I know what you're saying. A major problem for anybody who can see
>>beyond the trees is that they're always ridiculed and dismissed as mad
>>or obsessive or whatever. Few people appreciate their abilities and
>>they often have to walk through life at other peoples' pace. FWIW
>>this is a problem I've encountered in my own life - although not on
>>technology matters! I'm afraid that in this age - dorks rool!
>
>The fact that some who were ridiculed ended up correct doesn't mean
>that being ridiculed means that you're correct.
Indeed ...and the only way to prove foresight in this situation is
over time, as one's predictions/views/foresight/expectations are
progressively proven to be accurate and the consequences materialise.
That old hackeyed phrase "I told you so" comes to mind.
>Tesla COULD NOT have invented free energy unless it took not one
>single moment of human effort to create and distribute it. As soon as
>someone had to do something that someone had to be paid, and there
>goes "free".
I think that's an extreme interpretation of the definition.