One of the intriguing things about Internet discussions is how many words are thrown at a topic and how little movement occurs. By "movement" I mean the modification of your beliefs and opinions regarding a particular subject from whatever they are to, well, something else.
To-date, I can think of three opinions I've tossed on the rubbish pile because of persuasive counter-arguments:
* That IT outsourcing to India is a 'sky is falling' event for US workers - Doug cleared that up
* That the stuff Ariel -- "Female Chauvinist Pigs" -- Levy goes on about represents an actual problem in need of solving - B|L, among others, schooled me in the history of the "sex panic" which placed Levy's belly aching in an appropriate context
* That criticisms of post modern thought built upon grumblings about a lack of clarity are spot on - B|L and Carrol convinced me otherwise
There may be a few others which I can't recall at the moment.
It appears that what I'll call 'dynamic opinion modding' (cause I'm in a mood to make up techie sounding phrases) is about as rare as surface flowing water on Mars.
.d.