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   From: nospam@see.signature   
      
   Derek Currie  wrote:   
    [aa bunch of arithmetic]   
      
   > Readers: feel absolutely free to quote my calculations in any posts you   
   > make. It is publicly available data, and anyone trained in algebra can   
   > make the calculation if they WANT to.   
      
   Algebra? All I saw was arithmetic. I'd say that anyone trained in   
   algebra would wonder why you called this algebra. But in any case... you   
   aren't trained in mathematical proofs are you? (I am, by the way). There   
   is no "proof" of anything here. There are a bunch of unsupported   
   suppositions and some arithmetic. There is nothing to refute because   
   there is nothing here. It is a complete nonsequitur, dresssed up with   
   arithmetic.   
      
   There are names for some of the classic logical falacies in attempts at   
   proofs. But this one doesn't come up to the of those falacies.   
      
   By the way, no I am not at all a fan of Windows, I'm typing this on an   
   OS-X system at work, and my main home system is also OS X. Just because   
   I'm find of OS-X, that doesn't turn off my analytical abilities and make   
   me blindly swallow every argument that seems to be also supporting OS X.   
   Baseless arguments like yours hurt my position rather than help it.   
      
   Frankly, your use of the slur "winTroll" pretty much destroys any   
   argument right there. People with solid technical arguments don't need   
   to throw such slurs. I *DO* write technical papers for scientific   
   journals. In fact, several journals regularly send submitted papers to   
   me for my review. The use of terminology like that would in itself be   
   more than sufficient to reject a paper without a further look. If you   
   claim to have a "proof", you can present it in proper logical form   
   rather than with slurs.   
      
   --   
   Richard Maine                     | Good judgment comes from experience;   
   email: my first.last at org.domain| experience comes from bad judgment.   
   org: nasa, domain: gov            |       -- Mark Twain   
      
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