On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > --snip-- > > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > > > it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were > > > 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next > > > 45 years. > > > > Familiar with the theory of (I might be off on the numbers) a million > > monkeys, typing on a million typewriters for a million years? Maybe with > > enough people, there will be enough of us "maturing" to achieve critical > > mass? Or we're all completely off and have no idea what will actually > > happen. :) (I'd put my money on the latter. :) > > I recently discovered a couple of great sites: > > http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-tradition.html > http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html#antiquitatem > > This one sounds like "Argumentum ad antiquitatem", or the "that's the > way it's always been" fallacy. Or, as they say in the Stock Market: > "past performance does not predict future results" :-) Are you referring to my post or the one I was replying to? I checked the two links that you provided and, assuming you were, in fact, referring to my post, I don't quite follow the logic I'm afraid. If that was the case, could you elaborate please? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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