Re: fake PC supplies

Guy Macon wrote: 
Normally I silently killfile anyone who is rude enough to hijack
a discussion about electronics


So do I. But I didn't hijack it, any more than you did.

turn it into another boring religion/politics discussion 

The proposition may have a religious origin, but I don't see any
religious arguments about it here. And surely discussion about
human values (with respect to dealings in fake electronic goods)
is not off-limits? I know that in my religious days my engineering
career was definitely restricted by misinterpretation of this
injunction.

When a Bible passage is quoted, the default assumption is that
it's the King James Version.


Fair point - but the KJV is wrong now, as you and I pointed out.
I could have dragged out the Greek too, but I'm not that bloody-
minded. The Latin Vulgate doesn't even mention money - it's better
translated as "covetousness is...", which is also closer to the
Greek filarguria, avarice.

He also should have corrected the entire
quote; he got "all kinds of evil" but missed "a root."


the root/a root becomes immaterial when you include "kinds of".
Either way it's clear that *not* all evil is said to stem from it,
contrary to the way this idea has entered popular culture, and
that was what I aimed to correct.

this is a passage where the changes in english language... 

Interesting point, I hadn't realised that KJV might have once been
correct here.

Can we go back to talking about electronics now? 

Please... :-)
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