Quote from: Hyena on February 27, 2016, 04:04:27 PM

Quote from: LMGTFY on February 27, 2016, 03:59:44 PM

Are you effectively saying "there is nothing you can do that will make me change my mind"? If that's the case I'd be happy to walk, nay, run away and leave you to it.

I'm honestly not bringing this matter to court. I just happen to believe that intellectual and forensic vigour have a role in discourse.

I didn't mean literally to the court. I mean that you chose the definition of the term evidence that is used in the context of courts.

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Law. data presented to a court or jury in proof of the facts in issue and which may include the testimony of witnesses, records, documents, or objects.

While I'd define it like that:

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evidence --- something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign

Huh, I thought I picked the two definitions that weren't legal...

Quote from: LMGTFY on February 27, 2016, 03:35:03 PM

Except there's not a lack of evidence ("Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.", "One who bears witness."). I've provided evidence - an observation from someone who was there, someone who was there bearing witness - stating what the design goals were - and were not. I've also provided evidence (facts and observations around the presentation to the UK's NPL in 1968) of the "discovery" of the utility of packet-switching in resisting nuclear attack (albeit in voice telecommunications rather than data), after the inception of ARPANET.

...and skipped the "(law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial." definition.

Anyhoo...

Are you effectively saying "there is nothing you can do that will make me change my mind"? If that's the case I'd be happy to walk, nay, run away and leave you to it.