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On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:05:22 +0100 |
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Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:28:13 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > This was actually a potential risk once upon a time: |
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> Sorry to drift from the topic, but would somebody please explain to me |
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> what a potential risk is? How does it differ from a risk? |
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> (Not getting at you, Etaoin; the world is just full of woolly thinking |
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> that threatens to submerge us all. Or not thinking, in most cases.) |
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I suppose that a risk is potential because it's possible that it's, um |
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"risky" only under certain circumstances. |
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If those circumstances are not true for you, there is no risk; if they are |
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true, there is a risk. |
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Once you know that there is a risk (thus it's no longer potential, but |
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it's actual), it still take somebody or something to exploit it to actually |
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have a problem. |
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Makes sense? |
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