11-23-2010, 03:33 PM
Socialist? I would call it something else. What do you call somone who's afraid of a pure democracy? mob rule? anarchy?
Whatever that is, I changed to that when I saw all the good encyclopedias go out of business. We once had a system where 99.99% of the info in the encylopedia was accurate, source checked, and was written by subject matter experts. I'd be totally guessing if I said wiki was only 70%, 80%, 90%, of that level, but I can gauruntee you that its something less then 99.99%. What we have now is somthing that's "ok", often abused, and free. The key is that its free so we all ignore the other issues -- like the fact that the content can be total garbage at any given time for any given subject. We've all decided that since its free, its ok that its mostly right most of the time. I hope we don't start designing space ships and hospital equiptment that way.
Whatever that is, I changed to that when I saw all the good encyclopedias go out of business. We once had a system where 99.99% of the info in the encylopedia was accurate, source checked, and was written by subject matter experts. I'd be totally guessing if I said wiki was only 70%, 80%, 90%, of that level, but I can gauruntee you that its something less then 99.99%. What we have now is somthing that's "ok", often abused, and free. The key is that its free so we all ignore the other issues -- like the fact that the content can be total garbage at any given time for any given subject. We've all decided that since its free, its ok that its mostly right most of the time. I hope we don't start designing space ships and hospital equiptment that way.
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison