Sounds like a common sense decision

Martin wrote:

I think that he thought it up whilst inscribing a million Angels on the head
of a pin.

Inscribing? When did they stop dancing on a pin head?

Some confusion I think between the engravers' test piece of getting
Lord's Prayer on a pin head and the ancient theological question about
angels dancing on a pin head (how much room does an angel need? -- they
used to worry about things like that in them days). Nowadays the angels
and pin head thing means, basically, wasting time talking about daft
things. So I don't really know what the OP was getting at.

Bill

On 13/11/2012 20:35, Bill Wright wrote:
Martin wrote:

I think that he thought it up whilst inscribing a million Angels on
the head of a pin.

Inscribing? When did they stop dancing on a pin head?

Some confusion I think between the engravers' test piece of getting
Lord's Prayer on a pin head

The whole of the King James Bible is on a 2mm x 2mm hologram.


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Jim Lesurf wrote:

the "business". It is manifestly correct that the arguments ad-men present
aren't always true, even if 'convincing'. The skill of advertising is to be
convincing and plausible, not to always be true.


Actually the skill in marketing, as practiced by legitimate businesses,
is to mislead the customer without telling any untruths at all. This is
done by careful choice of words, omitting anything negative, and by
sending message in the styling of the advertisement, and the choice of
imagery.

In article , Peter Duncanson
writes
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:16:53 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Brian Gaff wrote:
Its interesting that the British public are now getting used to seeing BBC
programmes with ad breaks on Yesterday and other channels, and I
just wonder
how long before the BBC can advertise.

The day after Hell freezes over I suspect. If the BBC were officially allowed
to advertise, the last vaguely credible excuse for calling it a public
service
and imposing a licence fee for it would be conspicuously gone. It would then
have to depend entirely on advertising, just like all the others.

Rod.

Perhaps.

However, the Irish Republic has a TV licence system, similar to ours,
which funds that country's main public service broadcaster, RTE. RTE
also shows adverts.

As does PBS in the USA.
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In article , Andy
Champ
wrote:
On 13/11/2012 20:35, Bill Wright wrote:
Some confusion I think between the engravers' test piece of getting
Lord's Prayer on a pin head and the ancient theological question about
angels dancing on a pin head (how much room does an angel need? --
they used to worry about things like that in them days). Nowadays the
angels and pin head thing means, basically, wasting time talking about
daft things. So I don't really know what the OP was getting at.

The angels dancing thing sounds slightly less daft when you find out
that the two debated answers were "finite" and "infinite".

But there is more than one kind of infinity, so that's no answer. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , David Woolley
wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:

the "business". It is manifestly correct that the arguments ad-men
present aren't always true, even if 'convincing'. The skill of
advertising is to be convincing and plausible, not to always be true.


Actually the skill in marketing, as practiced by legitimate businesses,
is to mislead the customer without telling any untruths at all.

However the results may be neither true nor false in any objectively
testable or even meaningful senses. So not being UNTRUE does not always
make the result TRUE. :-)

For some reason Russ Andrews springs to mind here. I can't quite decide
why...

Slainte,

Jim

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Martin wrote:

The whole of the King James Bible is on a 2mm x 2mm hologram.

Best place for it.

The King James is a masterwork of poetry and prose.

Bill

Jim Lesurf wrote:

But there is more than one kind of infinity, so that's no answer. :-)

Slainte,

Jim
There's an infinite number of infinities presumably.

By the way, my ten year old grand daughter came across the concept of
infinity, and we had great fun with it. She was absolutely intrigued and
bombarded me with hard-to-answer emails for weeks. I was wishing I was
clever.

Bill

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Martin wrote:

The whole of the King James Bible is on a 2mm x 2mm hologram.

Best place for it.

The King James is a masterwork of poetry and prose.

Said like a true atheist. Most of it is crap.

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In article , Max Demian wrote:

The whole of the King James Bible is on a 2mm x 2mm hologram.

Best place for it.

The King James is a masterwork of poetry and prose.

Said like a true atheist. Most of it is crap.

Yes, but beautifully written crap.

Rod.
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