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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:12:21 -0700
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On 03/27/2013 08:49 PM, rusi wrote:
> In particular "You are a liar" is as bad as "You are an idiot"
> The same statement can be made non-abusively thus: "... is not true
> because ..."

I don't agree.  With all the posts and micro benchmarks and other drivel that jmf has inflicted on us, I find it /very/ 
hard to believe that he forgot -- which means he was deliberately lying.

At some point we have to stop being gentle / polite / politically correct and call a shovel a shovel... er, spade.

--
~Ethan~