Useful info on the nav display?
#12
Re: Useful info on the nav display?
This is an interesting thread, pitting people who want to rationalize spending all those bucks on the Nav system against those who'd like to rationalize passing it up. I don't think my own decision to get it was entirely rational, but I don't care. Allow me one anecdote from another life, to make the point.
Many years ago I heard a speech by Edward Teller, and in the question period one hostile student asked him "aren't you ashamed of all the evil knowledge you've brought into the world?" His answer was that he had known both the Government and individuals to make many mistakes in the past, but "I don't know of anyone who made a mistake because he knew too much."
I never agreed with him on many things, but I do agree that knowledge is an intrinsic good, and that's why I didn't think twice about getting the Nav system. Or the ScanGauge, for that matter, warts and all.
Before anyone warns me that this point can be carried too far, I need to say that I know it. That makes this the place to quote the revered physicist, Niels Bohr, who said that the difference between a great truth and an ordinary truth is that for a great truth the opposite is also true.
Now, Jason, you can throw me off the Board for waxing philosophical when I should be talking about cars. Or do I get a warning before I walk the plank?
Many years ago I heard a speech by Edward Teller, and in the question period one hostile student asked him "aren't you ashamed of all the evil knowledge you've brought into the world?" His answer was that he had known both the Government and individuals to make many mistakes in the past, but "I don't know of anyone who made a mistake because he knew too much."
I never agreed with him on many things, but I do agree that knowledge is an intrinsic good, and that's why I didn't think twice about getting the Nav system. Or the ScanGauge, for that matter, warts and all.
Before anyone warns me that this point can be carried too far, I need to say that I know it. That makes this the place to quote the revered physicist, Niels Bohr, who said that the difference between a great truth and an ordinary truth is that for a great truth the opposite is also true.
Now, Jason, you can throw me off the Board for waxing philosophical when I should be talking about cars. Or do I get a warning before I walk the plank?
#13
Re: Useful info on the nav display?
Originally Posted by hallewis
This is an interesting thread, pitting people who want to rationalize spending all those bucks on the Nav system against those who'd like to rationalize passing it up.
...do I get a warning before I walk the plank?
...do I get a warning before I walk the plank?
Hal, were they still making folks walk the plank in your Navy days? I thought by WWII they were stringing people up from the yardarm in their skivvies or something.
#14
Re: Useful info on the nav display?
Please disregard the following statement. I apologize for the disruption it has caused and will be dealing with the situation with our staff. Thanks.
Originally Posted by Pravus Prime
Oh, and one more thing, anyone compares the nav system to their handheld seperate unit gets a warning and maybe a ban.
#16
Re: Useful info on the nav display?
Originally Posted by Jason
Please disregard the following statement. I apologize for the disruption it has caused and will be dealing with the situation with our staff. Thanks.
Hal
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