Gaston Glock
Just found out he died 27 December.
Very good designer and businessman. By pretty much all accounts personally a nasty human being.
I read the article on his passing in the UK paper "The Telegraph", and it stated the slide was the only piece of metal in the gun, btw.
nothing new about the vast majority of the media, is it?
by Miles 
, CIVITATES AMERICAE, Wednesday, January 03, 2024, 19:36 (323 days ago) @ A K Church
and some still suffer from the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
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Esse sine metu in facie inimici tui. Sit fortis et rectus quod Deus ut amo te. Veritatem dico semper etiam si eam ducit ad mortem tuam. Tuendam inops et facere no mali.
nothing new about the vast majority of the media, is it?
There a great short article somewhere about the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, written by Gell-Mann's friend Michael Crichton.
I miss Michael Crichton. Doctor, writer, director, and extremely tall person. Really really funny sometimes. Wrote some great scary books.
Gell-Mann by Crichton
by Miles , CIVITATES AMERICAE, Sunday, January 07, 2024, 03:09 (320 days ago) @ A K Church
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-a...
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
― Michael Crichton
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Esse sine metu in facie inimici tui. Sit fortis et rectus quod Deus ut amo te. Veritatem dico semper etiam si eam ducit ad mortem tuam. Tuendam inops et facere no mali.