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