Username Protected wrote:
http://www.ousterhout.net/zoom.html
now i see. doesn't necessarily make him wrong but does suggest certain limitations as to credibility. couple of real classics in the story.
You're very generous, Marc.
But, there are certain things in life that, once you do them, you are forever disqualified from doing other things. As a journalist, once you've lied, you are no longer entitled to the presumed veracity on which journalism depends.
He might be telling the truth in this case. But any time he tells the truth, it's because there's a coincidental alliance between the truth and his self interest. The NTSB transcript contains this illustrative quote: "[W]e're talking about a situation where a person consistently puts himself in a position of being unable to resist the impulse to fabricate a story in order to improve or to build up a grandiose self image,..."
And if that wasn't enough, his writing is awful!
