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I think you're missing the point...

• deleted 6y ago
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• bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  the point was that the brown m&ms have an important signalling effect? and I said well there could be a case in which the signal you thought you were receiving from the m&ms being present was wrong?
  • pengaru 6y ago
    The point is only to detect whether they read enough of the contract to find that buried, arbitrary but highly visible detail, not to ensure they execute everything within it.
    • bryanrasmussen 6y ago
      In the versions of the story if they didn't execute that point Van Halen's roadie would go on the warpath and go through everything to determine stuff was done correctly, so I mean the point was not that they read the contract? No one cares if you read the contract, they care that you do what is in the contract - of course doing what is in the contract requires that you read it first, but it is the doing that people care about. If you have not done the M&Ms correctly you have not read the contract that means you could not have done the important things they require.