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#9▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 09:43 CST
Gail has the right lane. Dan, give a detail that is checkable by someone with a library card and zero clearance. A public road that changed name. A contractor that moved offices. A weird boilerplate phrase. If every possible detail is forbidden, then every possible lie is protected too.
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#10▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 11:02 EST
He already told you he cannot prove it. Why do skeptics come into insider threads just to demand the one thing that would get a person hurt?
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#11▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 10:19 CST
Because the world contains frightened truth tellers, lonely men, bored hoaxers, mentally unwell people, and actual operators doing actual shaping. The rules have to survive all five categories. Kindness without verification is just a soft target.
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#12▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 12:06 EST
Funny how the rule always becomes prove it to the satisfaction of people with agency vocabularies. The maze has guards and some guards call themselves skeptics.
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#13▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 12:44 EST
There is a category error forming already. The thread is asking whether Dan is true, but the board can only decide whether the claim has public handles. Those are not the same question. We can fail to know without deciding he is false.
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#14▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 13:11 EST
Public handles are safer. I can say the most boring thing I touched was logistics middleware, not craft skin, not bodies, not a chair from Mars. People keep wanting a shrine and most of it was inventory discipline with rules written by nervous men.
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#15▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 13:28 EST
Logistics middleware leaves receipts somewhere. Maybe not under the scary name. But procurement hates poetry and loves invoice codes. Can you give a generic commodity category without naming the program?
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#16▸ Posted: 13 Jun 2000, 13:33 EST
Inventory software. The smoking gun is a spreadsheet. Terrifying stuff.
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