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To: lmr
You think we would have forgotten how to keep a paper record of things?

Yes I do.

How would you have gotten the beginning balances on the millions of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages, etc., from around the world if the computers had completely crashed? How would you have kept the paper records on several thousand bank checking accounts when you could not get a printout of the current invalid acount data. How would you have kept the paper records on millions of checks being cleard through each clearing house (which could not have been done without the computers). I watched an accountant trying to audit an accounts recievable for a realtively small company, 2,000 accounts. After six days with his adding machine he gave up and accepted the computer printout.

Do you balance your checking account, savings account, 401k, and all the other bills and statements you get every month? Try doing that for 10,000 people or doing the payroll for 1,500 employees with an adding machine.

Even your simple act of posting a stupid reply on this forum requires several thousand instructions to be completed around the world. Maybe you should do your communication with the world with teletype and telephone.

31 posted on 12/07/2008 5:18:58 PM PST by ProudFossil
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To: ProudFossil

Calling fellow Conservatives “Stupid’ will not win or retain any hearts and minds in our forum.

I do A/R for over 48,000 accounts. I could do it by hand if I wanted to. It would take more time and I would need an assistant, but I am that efficient.

You are exercising a bit of ‘Expert Fallacy’ and behaving like a know-it-all when there clearly exists valid points of view by many parties.

My comment was benign and meant as a joke. You offhandedly replied in a tone that I find belligerent.

Work on that, especially if you want to bring future Conservatives into the fold.


42 posted on 12/08/2008 8:15:07 PM PST by lmr
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