-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Dan Clough <=-  
    
   MK>> Nevermind "better", totally ignoring everything FTS-5003 has to  
   MK>> say about anything it supposedly covers is the "best" idea.  
    
   MvV>> If totally ignoring the FTSC is te "best" idea, why bother to  
   MvV>> have an FTSC at all?  
    
   DC> Since you're very "detail-oriented", I thought I'd point out that he  
   DC> didn't say the FTSC should be ignored.  He said FTS-5003 should be  
   DC> ignored.  Pretty big difference there, no?  
    
   MvV> It is indeed not the same. I jumped two steps ahead. So let me help  
  you  
   MvV> by filling in the missing steps:  
    
   MvV> 1) If totally ignoring FTS-5003 is the "best" idea, what is stopping  
  us  
   MvV> from totally ignoring any other FTSC standard that one does not agree  
   MvV> with?  
    
   MvV> 2) If totally ignoring any FTSC standard that one does not agree with  
   MvV> is the "best", what stops us from totally ignoring anything that the  
   MvV> FTSC does or produces?  
    
   MvV> 3) if nothing stops us from totally ignoring the FTSC why bother to  
   MvV> have an FTSC at all?  
    
  Sorry, debate doesn't work that way.  You can't just continually use  
  "If... if... if..., then".  
    
  I'll counter your questions with something equally irrelevant:  
    
  If pigs had wings, could they fly?  
    
   MvV> Hope this helps.  
    
  It didn't.  It just continued to illustrate your petty-ness.  
    
    
    
  ... I'd love to help you out.  Which way did you come in?  
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