* Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> ____/ Linonut on Tuesday 25 December 2007 22:43 : \____
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>> Frankly, I think you're an idiot, or you are playing a game.
>
> Linonut, Weisgerber is a spinner, or a liar just like those politicians who run
> the US government at the moment with a permanent poker face. Just ignore him.
I'll ignore him when he is (1) silly or demeaning in tone; and (2)
trying to weasel-word an argument into being. I'm not too interested in
nit-picking an argument-win.
However, when I see something interesting to me, hell, I'll respond if I
feel up to it.
> Microsoft knows that illusion of good prospects is the only way to
> attract /real/ investors, which /might/ replace the need for buybacks, i.e.
> Microsoft buying its own dropped stocks using its hard-earned savings (crime
> money, aka loot, estimated at $100,000,000,000 for the backbacks alone).
I'm not sure that's quite his game. I suspect it is, for him, a
convenient tool to troll and hone his debating skills.
The thing is, even when he's wrong, he can sometimes produce such an
approximation to correctness that one has to think pretty carefully to
figure out where he's wrong and how to argue back.
I don't mind doing that if it isn't leading to a dead end (e.g. a verbal
pissing contest).
Not that I'm perfectly consistent in my resolutions, though.
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Tux rox!
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