[WikiEN-l] Chicago situation resolved.

[Gwern Branwen]

Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> writes:

> Marc Riddell wrote:
>
>>on 4/7/07 5:40 PM, geni wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Not so much. Information is power. Power includes the power to 
   kill.
>>>
>>>Words and images can result in deaths. See [[Jyllands-Posten 
   Muhammad
>>>cartoons controversy]]. So can almost any form of information
>>>
>>>If wikipedia continues at it's current level of popularity it 
   is
>>>likely that something in it will eventually indirectly result 
   in
>>>deaths (if it hasn't already). At best we can hope that any 
   deaths
>>>will be the result of truths rather than lies.
>>>    
>>>
>>Bummer :-(
>>  
>>
> As the song says, "Always look on the bright side of life."  A 
death in 
> the pursuit of this jihad of truth will earn you the endless 
> ministrations of 100 perpetual virgins.  ;-)
>
> Ec

No, no, that's a mistaken, heretical, and POV translation! What 
the Prophet Jimbo saith in his fifth sura was that death in the 
pursuit of truth guaranteed the martyr the endless ministrations 
of 100 perpetual "reference librarians", not "virgins". It is an 
easy mistake, but nevertheless crucial.

-- 
Gwern
Inquiring minds want to know.