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Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32

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BGB wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> BGB wrote:
>>> except that grape-nuts come in one of two states:
>>> gravel (try eating this stuff straight and dry, not very good);
>>> bland mostly-flavorless glop (it directly transmutes from gravel to
>>> glop given
>>> time and exposure to fluids, and not consistently either).
>>>
>>> and is also generally associated with old-people [sic].
>>
>> Evidence, please?
>>
>> Just because you have an idiosyncratic association doesn't mean the
>> general public does.
>
> ever see people who aren't older who like the stuff?

Sure.

But even had I not, that's not evidence.

> hence, why it is as it is.

Sorry, what? That sentence lacks antecedents. Also a logical connection from 
premise through evidence to conclusion.

> if something is usually only ever seen done by a certain demographic, it is
> something associated with that demographic.

Fine generality, but it doesn't apply here.

I'm still waiting for evidence. Do you have any?

Personally, I've loved Grape-Nuts since I grew teeth as a small child.

Doesn't one counter-example destroy your thesis?

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-26 13:29 -0700
  Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-04-26 21:30 +0000
    Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 14:52 -0700
      Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-04-27 08:20 -0400
        Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-28 09:19 -0700
          Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-28 12:30 -0700
            Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-28 14:24 -0700
              Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-28 21:04 -0700
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                Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-29 08:12 -0700
      Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-27 10:56 -0700
    Re: new JDK 1.7.0_04 and 1.6.0_32 BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-27 08:25 -0700
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