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Originally Posted by taustin
In the nearly 20 years I've been reading Charlie on Usenet and his blog, I've never noted any tendency to accept anything at face value. He is, in fact, a crank. A very outspoken crank who doesn't accept much of anything without something more than "the monkeys that fly out of my butt told me so." Again, I find him far more credible than anybody here. He doesn't speak without knowing what he's talking about.
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Great. This means you have a personal opinion on a source that you trust.
Your personal opinion does not apply to the rest of us. We have different sources and different opinions. I think we can express those opinions without you saying we're calling your friend a liar. (Unless someone called Stross out directly as a liar and I missed that. But I saw someone say that industry insiders are generally
biased. Which is another thing entirely from
liar.)
And if I pull one of my favorite authors out -- or my mum! -- and say I believe them when they say the opposite of what your personal opinion person says, I fully support your decision to be all "yeeeeeeah, I'ma take a pass on that."
