Quoting skipnet50:

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Ahhh but you are wrong my friend, on all counts. However i will say that based on the amount of confusion over the whole title issue the last couple of e of weeks, as borne out by numerous threads on the topic, it would seem that the correctness of position has been PROVEN correct. While the position that was followed has been proven to be a total MESS.

I find it truly sad that people believe that can properly determine much about anyone based on nothing more than what in my case is usually stream of consciousness writings on a forum. Trust me, it reveals next to nothing.

I find it truly sad that you believe this has anything to do with this issue.  Oh wait, this is the old 'misdirection' trick.  As I said before, I am a student of magic and it doesn't work on me.    I make my determinations based on your actions, not your words.  You say that you do not interpret the data.  You say that you 'enter what you see'.  Those are false statements.  If the title screen reads...

            John Smith
              presents
        The Wonderful Life
A Twentieth Century Fox Release

...you ignore everything except "The Wonderful Life", claiming it is not part of the title or, more misdirection, claim it is not "the issue at hand".  I know you think we are all too stupid to figure this out, but we aren't.  We see it for what it is.

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My personality and intellect (or lack thereof  ) i s closer to my College course in Micro Economics. I spent many years in the natural sciences where 2+2=4, my Econ professor would ask that question and of course, I would say I know, Iknow, its 4 and he wopuld say NO IT'S SEVEN,m y7ou forgot to allow the elasticity of the demand and yada yada yada. 2+2 does not equal 4, amigos, and 2+2 is all you have.  The human psyche is NOT that simple, but keep trying, I enjoy watching it.

Skip      

I am sorry Skip, but no.  This is basic math.  2+2=4.  Always has, always will.  Why?  Because those are basic whole numbers.  I am sure there was an explanation to follow that question.  No professor, in his right mind, would tell you that the number 2 added to the number 2 equals anything but 4.  Maybe yous hould have payed better attention to the lesson. 

 

And so, with a knowing smile on his face, he locked down his office for the night...

Quoting Unicus69:

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Quoting skipnet50:

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Ahhh but you are wrong my friend, on all counts. However i will say that based on the amount of confusion over the whole title issue the last couple of e of weeks, as borne out by numerous threads on the topic, it would seem that the correctness of position has been PROVEN correct. While the position that was followed has been proven to be a total MESS.

I find it truly sad that people believe that can properly determine much about anyone based on nothing more than what in my case is usually stream of consciousness writings on a forum. Trust me, it reveals next to nothing.

I find it truly sad that you believe this has anything to do with this issue.  Oh wait, this is the old 'misdirection' trick.  As I said before, I am a student of magic and it doesn't work on me.    I make my determinations based on your actions, not your words.  You say that you do not interpret the data.  You say that you 'enter what you see'.  Those are false statements.  If the title screen reads...

            John Smith
              presents
        The Wonderful Life
A Twentieth Century Fox Release

...you ignore everything except "The Wonderful Life", claiming it is not part of the title or, more misdirection, claim it is not "the issue at hand".  I know you think we are all too stupid to figure this out, but we aren't.  We see it for what it is.

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My personality and intellect (or lack thereof  ) i s closer to my College course in Micro Economics. I spent many years in the natural sciences where 2+2=4, my Econ professor would ask that question and of course, I would say I know, Iknow, its 4 and he wopuld say NO IT'S SEVEN,m y7ou forgot to allow the elasticity of the demand and yada yada yada. 2+2 does not equal 4, amigos, and 2+2 is all you have.  The human psyche is NOT that simple, but keep trying, I enjoy watching it.

Skip      

I am sorry Skip, but no.  This is basic math.  2+2=4.  Always has, always will.  Why?  Because those are basic whole numbers.  I am sure there was an explanation to follow that question.  No professor, in his right mind, would tell you that the number 2 added to the number 2 equals anything but 4.  Maybe yous hould have payed better attention to the lesson. 

Evidently, Unicus, you have never taken an Econ class.    Needless to say that class drove me CRAZY.

Skip

BTW, Unicus, I was waiting for you to throw out that FISH. I will repeat what I said when it was first brought up. The TOPIC is possessives...your example has NOTHING to do with possessive (at least part of it) and is only inrtended to misdirect and muddy the water. That would be a separate topic. Feel free to bring it up as such.

Skip

<shakes HEAD>

Skip

Quoting skipnet50:

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BTW, Unicus, I was waiting for you to throw out that FISH. I will repeat what I said when it was first brought up. The TOPIC is possessives...your example has NOTHING to do with possessive (at least part of it) and is only inrtended to misdirect and muddy the water. That would be a separate topic. Feel free to bring it up as such.

Skip

Sorry Skip, but no.  That was what you wanted it to be about.  For the rest of us, the topic was 'DVD Titles'.  As I pointed out in my post, that was your attempt at misdirection.  Your logic for including possessives was, "I deal with the data in front of me.  I do not interpret it."  Well, if that were true, you wouldn't have limited yourself to 'possessives'.  You would have included ALL the data.

That was the fatal flaw in your logic then, and it remains the fatal flaw today.  You can keep pretending it isn't so, but we all know better.  The Emperor has no clothes. 

Locking it???

But... but.... we're only at PAGE 5 ?!?!?!?!

   

Quoting hal9g:

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Not sure how the exact wording of the Rules can be construed as "spin", but there ya go!

Will you come here and eat crow when it is accepted?

How do you like your crow?