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- From: greg@dent.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg)
- Subject: What I said is not what you said I said, and I have more to say
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.002226.16108@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, U. of Chicago
- References: <921218174341_72240.1256_EHL52-3@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:22:26 GMT
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- In article <921218174341_72240.1256_EHL52-3@CompuServe.COM> Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
- >Greg Kuperberg made some uninformed statements about me, and about Japan:
- >
- >"Jed Rothwell keeps assuring us that corporate giants (in Japan) don't
- >make mistakes"
-
- If I had said this then you might have been right that I made an
- uninformed statement about you. But that's a big "if".
-
- As for my statements about Japan, you suggested that most
- of them were true but had the wrong emphasis. For example this one:
-
- >"For example, when Sony lost hundreds of millions of dollars marketing
- >Betamax, it did resemble a mistake." Quite right, even Homer nods.
-
- See? Even you agree. Then you go on to say:
-
- >The question is: over a period of many years, does Sony make a profit...
-
- To profit or not to profit, that is question. You agree with me and I
- will return the favor and agree with you.
-
- Now you and I can go back, respectively, to my analysis of manifolds
- and your data analysis of neutronpenision.
-