> Donald Rumsfeld addressing NATO last week in Belgium.
>
>
> RUMSFELD: Now, what is the message there? The message is that there are no
>
> >knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns.
>
> >That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there
>
> >are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.
>
> >
>
> >So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together,
> >and
>
> >we then say, that's basically what we see as the situation. That is
really
>
> >only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover
a
>
> >few more of those unknown unknowns. And it sounds like a riddle. It isn't
a
>
> >riddle. It is a very serious, important matter.
>
> >
>
> >And there's another way to phrase that, and that is, that the absence of
>
> >evidence is not evidence of absence. And it is basically saying the same
>
> >thing in a different way, that simply because you do not have evidence
that
>
> >something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't
> >exist.
>
> >And yet, almost always, when we make our threat assessments, when we look
> >at
>
> >the world, we end up basing it on the first two pieces of that puzzle
> >rather
>
> >than all three.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>>
>
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13/06/2002 20:09:28, matthew@sackman.co.uk (Matthew Sackman) wrote:
>> How would people feel about doing something about this at the next meeting
>> (negotiable Wed 3rd July) ?
>> Could we get a suitable venue / presentations together quickly enough to
>> allow for an invited (businesses, MP's ie. non-LUG people) audience ?
>
>I for one would prefer it the following month as I'm on Holiday on 3rd
>July, but am around Wed 7th August.
>--
>
>Matthew Sackman
>Nottingham
>England
>
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