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Re: Reclassification - Wordperfect



"Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> Arkain wrote:
>
> > Roy...
> >
> > I have no vices, chemical or otherwise.
>
> You are far too intense. Your statement was totally without merit,
however, if I
> has wished to seriously suggested that you were engaged in a vice I would
have
> phrased my statement somewhat differently. Perhaps it is a generational
> difference, but if someone of my age suggested that I "must be high" I
would
> understand him/her as thinking my comments were totally off base, not that
I was
> under the influence.

I deemed your terminology inappropriate for a debate. Had this just been a
normal conversation for me, I would've replied something like "No, you're
the one who's smoked out!", but in a debate I prefer to keep out
coloquialisms like that...

<snipped>
> > If no one has tried it in court yet,
>
> "If", how do you know that it hasn't, and if it hasn't, when businesses
have
> hired some high priced legal talent to get them out of trouble, then
someone
> hitting on all cylinders would conclude that there must be a very good
reason
> for it. And that it wouldn't be that magnetic media wasn't legally
considered
> "permanent."

Using "if" means I don't know for sure if it's one way or the other. As for
that very good reason? Simple. Maybe no one thought to try using it.

Arkain