Me, then Jenny:
And as I've stated elsewhere, this is not guaranteed.
But it can't be ruled out either.
Agreed. It's a possibility. It's also *less* likely as a possibility than possibility that it causing random failures. So don't treat it as an immutable fact.
You don't know what
it's doing;
I think I've got a good idea of what the authors intended should be going on.
So? You can think that. You don't know.
you only know that at some point in the past, it started to
malfunction. From then on, to the point where an expert in the field declares that it's fixed, all bets are off.
An expert who declares Gan a psychopath.
Irrevelant to the reliability of the limiter, before he fixes it.
All you *can* say, reliably, is that
you can't trust what's going on in there, because there's an unknown
factor
that *might* be influencing things in an unpredictable manner.
That's absolutely right. But only right in the sense in which it relates to that particular episode.
Only in the sense that you can't reliably infer anything from Gan's behaviour during the majority of that episode. So let's discount it as a episode contributing towards or against any theory about Gan's character, shall we?
steve
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Steve Kilbane