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Saturday, July 20. 2013

Correlation vs. Causation

If you think about it for a while, you have to wonder whether this might require a $5 million government grant to understand the deeper processes at work here. h/t Carpe Diem



Posted by The Barrister in Fallacies and Logic at 15:01 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Firefox saves lives!
#1 Gringo on 2013-07-20 15:19 (Reply)
Because you brought up the subject of Microsoft and because I was thinking of the Doc and his passionate attachment to Microsoft, I thought I should post this website.

http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html

Go to each number and click on that line, this will open a chapter. Read to the bottom of each chapter and click on next to read the next chapter. I believe this summarizes not only the Microsoft mindset, but the Seattle mindset also--even the universities in the Seattle area. Steal, threaten, and harass are the key guidelines for any of the power players in that area. The millions and millions of dollars spent on engineering and computer science at the UW has brought about hardly anything earth shattering and certainly innovation on that campus is nothing more than the key word to the lady's room. Just take a look at how Boeing, Microsoft, UPS, Starbucks, Amazon, etc., etc. do business.
#2 faculty wife on 2013-07-20 15:45 (Reply)
For the record, I presume she doesn't mean me when she says "Doc". I hate MSoft products, always have. As for browsers, I've been using FF for years, which is why I've written so many updates on it, like its continuing problems with Flash. My last post on IE made a mockery of it as the updates to v10 were few and far between.
    #2.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-07-21 07:14 (Reply)
    I know I'm much calmer with Firefox. I don't even think about killing someone, now.
    #3 Sam L. on 2013-07-20 16:45 (Reply)
    Also, Ice cream consumption correlates to the eradication of small pox, if I remember correctly.
    #4 Jose on 2013-07-21 22:24 (Reply)

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