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On 23 Jul 2005 20:19:22 GMT, (Lauri Tarkkonen)
wrote:
[Brian]
As to offering opinions - it is indeed a strange thing, but engineers
are often willing to offer engineering opinions on equipment
reliability even on examples of products they have not personally
used.
Does this seem presumptuous to you?

Respectfully

Brian Whatcott Altus, OK

[Lauri]
Opinions based on beliefs do not have much practical value, they might
be a nice discussion piece, but looks like you do not want to discuss
your beliefs as nobody is permitted to challenge them, the facts of
course are yuor worst enemy.
- Lauri Tarkkonen

Hmmm...Lauri seems to have got himself into an awful tizzy
about my modest first post: here's what I said in full:
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No personal insights...Still, autopilots fail if overheated or close
to a lightning stroke.

Wind vanes fail from wearout and from wind gusts.
Wind vanes are prized by blue water cruisers by all accounts

Brian Whatcott
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Let me write that last sentence again, very, very slowly:
"Wind vanes are prized by blue-water sailors."

Now it is just possible that Lauri disagrees, disagrees violently
with my opinion on wind vanes.

And it may even be, as he says, that the facts are my worst enemy...

But here's what I think, for what it's worth:
Lauri's command of the language is such that he wants to disagree
violently with someone who is holding out the same position as he is.

That's silly. wouldn't you think?

Not so respectfully

Brian Whatcott
[This is my last contribution to this wonderfully uninformative
thread. I would have found it helpful to learn just which autopilots
failed seven times (if they did ) in Lauri's hands, and which wind
vane is behaving so beautifully for him. But those are in the nature
of facts - and Lauri tells me that I am not interested in such things!
Ah well....]