Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?
Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
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On Sunday 11 May 2003 1:16 pm, dep wrote: > begin Daniel Cassidy's quote: > | I have. The saying has always been 'nine tenths' around here, > | although I've no idea where or how it originated. It's pretty much > | irrelevant anyway; with "nine tenths" it's pretty close to fact, > | with "nine parts" it fails to say anything at all. > > http://www.tdctrade.com/econforum/hkma/hkma021001.htm > > it's not that it said nothing at all so much as it does not say what > you would like it to say. Without prior knowledge of how many parts the law has, it says nothing. > the phrase, as to the parts of the law, has been around since at least > the 18th century, when colley cibber had it as "eleven points of the > law." Well, I consider the difference between nine tenths and nine elevenths to be fairly nominal, especially since nobody has the time to sit down and actually work out how much of an influence posession has on the law. Empirical evidence suggests, to me, that either saying is fairly close to the truth. -- dan "Were i susceptible to having my mind changed, it would have changed my mind" - Matthew Parris Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.