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David Schwartz davids at webmaster.com
Mon Oct 17 22:43:16 EDT 2005 
"Roedy Green" <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> wrote in 
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> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:29:36 -0700, "David Schwartz"
> <davids at webmaster.com> wrote or quoted :

>>    By the way, this is based on the same flawed premise that a lot of
>>post-Y2K griping was based on. It went like this, "wow, we get all 
>>concerned
>>and spent all this money on a problem that never even happened". Well,
>>perhaps it didn't happen because we were all concerned and spent all this
>>money on it.

> The worry was that the work would not be completed in time. The work
> had to be done or the programs would simply stop working.  There was
> no way to avoid the expense.

    I understand why the argument is invalid. I'm presenting it as an 
example of a similar invalid argument.

    DS
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