[AccessD] Friday (You Know)

Hi Andy

Well, if you state that something happens even when nothing happens (= "what happens is that nothing happens"). If so, Null has a value ...

/gustav

>>> andy at minstersystems.co.uk 28-09-2007 12:54 >>>
Gustav, doesn't this prove Arthur's theory rather than oppose it? You would
have bet against the wall coming down, therefore it did.

"Whatever you imagine will happen will almost certainly not happen." - and
vice-versa.

--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 



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Well, I go along with this Gustav as far a Berlin is concerned.

I was in Berlin in 1979 and there was definitely no sign of what was to
come.
Checkpoint Charlie was in its heyday!

Max
Ps. There are no bugs in any software I have written today (so far) -
Guaranteed!


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Hi Arthur

Sorry to break your theory, but no one (zero) believed in 1979 that the
Berlin wall would fall in 1989.

Further, on this Friday, no bugs exist in my software (at least it will take
more than a week for the users to discover it).

/gustav

>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 28-09-2007 07:05 >>>
Several great fragments from Stephen Pinker's "How the Mind Works".

1. Rocks are smarter than cats.

(Why?)

When you kick them, they don't come back.

2. "Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole
chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts
separately under a suitable medium."
-- Winston Churchill, 1932

3. "Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific
advances."
-- Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube, 1957.

<editorial: This part is mine, not Stephen Pinker's> If there's anything we
can be sure of, it's that the futurists of our decade and century will be
laughable a century hence.

Unfortunately, this leads to a strange conclusion. Whatever you imagine will
happen will almost certainly not happen. If you think that there will be
pollution-free cars in five years, bet against your feeling. If you think
that Iran and the USA will have a nuclear contest within a few years, bet
against it. If your best guess is that somehow Quebec and the rest of Canada
will magically reconcile their centuries-old differences, bet against it.
The rude crude law is this: whatever you hope might happen, bet against it.

In a final attempt to make this theory relevant to this newsgroup, If you
think there are no bugs in your software, bet against it. Before the week is
out, a user will prove your bet correct.
</editorial>

Arthur