On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:01:56 +0000, Bob Latham wrote:

In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

If you are so thick as to not understand the simple laws on apostrophe
use it puts the rest of your argument into question.

That to me is a quite ridiculous argument.

You are saying that someone who is ignorant in one area of life even in
knowledge considered basic and elementary by the majority means he
cannot be the world's best expert in another. I'm quite sure most people
(if not everyone) have some weak areas for all sorts of reasons *least*
of all because they are thick.

And adequately proved by your later statement that 'cables do sound
different'.

That is your opinion, you may be right. What worries me about this is
that some of you guys are so convinced that your knowledge of science is
so good that you *know* they cannot sound different so you never really
tried it. That of course reminds me of people saying the world cannot be
round otherwise it stands to reason we would all fall off on the other
side.


Cheers,

Bob.

Well said, Bob. Most of these so-called objectivists are nothing more
than hypocrites. If they really believed what they spout they'd all
have £50 CD players from Tesco's, £100 NAD (or whatever ) amps and use
£2 interconnects and bell wire/mains cable for their speaker connections.
After all, these all "measure" as well as £2k CD players/amps or expensive
interconnects/speaker cables.

They also, of course, would choose their wines or whiskies via double
blind tastings!!

The truth is that their "knowledge of science" as you put it, is
anything but knowledge. A good scientist knows that any scientific
"fact" is merely a working hypothesis that cannot be disproven to
agree with the state of scientific data at the time. The people we
are talking about here are not scientists but engineers with an overblown
faith in technology.

Malcolm