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To: Mani1 who wrote (52658)	3/15/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1574636

Mani - Re: " Wrong Burt, not even close. " You are COMPLETELY WRONG - AGAIN ! Paul

To: Mani1 who wrote (52658)	3/16/1999 9:06:00 AM
From: Burt Masnick	Respond to of 1574636

Mani - When I was in college 40 years ago, I was struck by a statement and a discussion on the following. "what one man knows to be true, another knows to be false". What followed was a philosophical discussion in the best sense. We probably can't (or shouldn't) argue about whether the bar is 2.358 meters long or weighs 6.1 kilograms. We may argue about whether a particular bill in congress will or won't achieve it's putative purpose. Each of us colors the facts that come to our attention with filters built by our experience, our biases and our wishes. That's what makes these threads informative and fun. My own observation (colored on my experience, biases and wishes) is that there are people here on the threads and (encountered in everyday life) who will argue gleefully about whether the bar is 2.358 meters long simply because that length was stated by someone whose opinions are generally at odds with their own opinions. I don't believe anyone posting knows with scientific certainty what will happen in the future to sales and profits of any microprocessor company. We each bring our experience, biases and wishes to the search for facts or info that will let us make an informed guess which we dignify with the word projection. Then some on the thread defend their "informed" guess to the death. Others are more agnostic. Some openly state that they "hope" that events turn out as they projected. Others are cheerleaders, interpreting every event as positive for their "cause", negative for their adversary's cause. Few (none?)are dispassionate and totally objective, at least by my standards, which of course differ from everyone else's. And I suspect that dispassionate and totally objective people are probably not great investors (just my personal bias, of course). All this to state that, so far as I can tell, what I said was true for at least one trading cycle where I paid close attention, assuming that the information provided then was true and accurate. Since it would have been both complex and pompous to put all the qualifications indicated above on my original statement, I simply stated what I believe. You are, of course, viewing the same events and statements through your filters and see things very differently. So be it. "What one man knows to be true, another knows to be false." Good investing, Burt