Re: Impossible Database Design?

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:oj2cg.10752$A26.264024_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Marshall wrote:
>
> > Bob Badour wrote:
> >
> >>Marshall wrote:
> >>
> >>>Regardless, a discrete representation is the only kind of
> >>>representation
> >>>possible with digital computers. You play the cards you're dealt.
> >>
> >>Marshall, if you are going to interact with the self-aggrandizing
> >>ignorants please take the time to call them on their bullshit.
> >
> > Geeze, I thought that was what I was doing. I knocked down
> > the complaint about needing to represent time as continuous,
> > since it's impossible, and provided the counter of how we
> > use a discrete representation of a subset of the reals, even
> > though the reals are continuous. I also knocked down the idea
> > of there being a problem with applying an order to any
> > arbitrary discrete domain.
>
> Cutting out the context of what I wrote does not make your response any
> more valid. You have assumed a number of things that are not necessarily
> true.
>
> First, you assume people will read beyond the first part of the exchange
> where you conceded Joe's alleged argument.
>
> Second, you assume that those who read your arguments will understand
> them sufficiently to recognize them as crushing refutations of some of
> the remainder of Joe's bullshit instead of perhaps seeing them only as
> establishing a second reasonable view on a controversial issue.
>
> Third, you assume Joe is a sincere discussant of the topic instead of
> the someone manipulating you for his own self-promotion.
>
> He manipulated you into not only accepting him as an intellectual peer,
> which he is not, but into granting him an intellectual high ground.

Why does all of this matter? Received on Sun May 21 2006 - 23:21:15 CEST