My First Encounter with Bill Hamblin

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Re: My First Encounter with Bill Hamblin

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DrW wrote:You should learn that the ad hominem attack is not an effective response and reflects poorly on the attacker, especially when it isn't even worded or spelled correctly.


These posts of mine are not ad hominem. Under your definition of things, criticizing posting style and the contents of a post would be a personal attack. It isn't.

But yours is a common error.
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A fin?
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harmony wrote:A fin?


You know, posting from an ipad ain't as great as I thought it'd be.
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Yahoo Bot wrote:
harmony wrote:A fin?


You know, posting from an ipad ain't as great as I thought it'd be.

Get the ZaggMate keyboard to go with it. It makes a big difference.

When did you get your iPad? I love mine. :-)
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Yahoo Bot wrote:
harmony wrote:A fin?


You know, posting from an ipad ain't as great as I thought it'd be.

Get the ZaggMate keyboard to go with it. It makes a big difference.

When did you get your iPad? I love mine. :-)
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A few weeks ago. It was costly because I have to buy one for the wife at the same time. I drive her crazy with it and send her noisy messages in the middle of the day with the locate iPhone app.

It is tough to draft documents with. Not powerful enough. Maybe the next will be faster.

The ESPN TV app is the greatest.
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Yahoo Bot wrote:A few weeks ago. It was costly because I have to buy one for the wife at the same time. I drive her crazy with it and send her noisy messages in the middle of the day with the locate iPhone app.

It is tough to draft documents with. Not powerful enough. Maybe the next will be faster.

The ESPN TV app is the greatest.

The keyboard really makes a big difference. Also, try the Quick Office app for documents. It's a $12 app, which is expensive for an app, but it has a pretty large capacity. I also have the iWork apps that synch to my MacBook.
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Re: My First Encounter with Bill Hamblin

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Yahoo Bot wrote:
DrW wrote:You should learn that the ad hominem attack is not an effective response and reflects poorly on the attacker, especially when it isn't even worded or spelled correctly.


These posts of mine are not ad hominem. Under your definition of things, criticizing posting style and the contents of a post would be a personal attack. It isn't.

But yours is a common error.

Yahoo Bot,

When one accuses another of lying, in spite of available evidence to the contrary, that pretty much qualifies as an ad hominem attack. Now, I can understand why apologists would wish to allow themselves some latitude in this regard, but extending it to calling one a liar without evidence seems a bit much.

Merely being an apologist does not excuse you from calling someone a liar when that individual has provided his full identity and internet references to another well known member on the board, who has in turn verified that said individual does in fact hold a Ph.D., has numerous patents, and is published extensively in peer reviewed journals as a scientist.

If you had a shred of integrity, you would apologize.
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Re: My First Encounter with Bill Hamblin

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DrW wrote:
When one accuses another of lying, in spite of available evidence to the contrary, that pretty much qualifies as an ad hominem attack. Now, I can understand why apologists would wish to allow themselves some latitude in this regard, but extending it to calling one a liar without evidence seems a bit much.

Merely being an apologist does not excuse you from calling someone a liar when that individual has provided his full identity and internet references to others on the board, who have in turn verified that said individual does in fact hold a Ph.D., has numerous patents, and is published extensively in peer reviewed journals as a scientist.

If you had a shred of integrity, you would apologize.


Without proof it is no better than a lie. A boast without proof is really cowardly.

I will make the following statement to you which I made to former academic on this board who shortly thereafter stopped posting. Or at least it appeared so.

I routinely ask my scientific experts during cross examination if they ever post to blogs anonymously. If they are truthful and identify their posts the jury finds it appalling when they make various boasts about their credentials in the context of insulting or defaming somebody.

How about you? Do you think it honorable to boast about your credentials AND insult somebody anonymously.
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Jews may be the promised people and Palestine their land, but the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees kicked out of their homes at the end of WWII by the British don't see it that way.


You are absolutely right. And now when we take into account the cities (or as Isreal so wrongly calls them, settlements), the zionists are building on the west bank for jews only, we can perhaps see just where the arab anger is. I believe that there are 121 jewish settlements/cities with a total population of 325,000. No arab, hindu, buddhist can live there. Plus, these jewish cities are built on the best land in strategic locations. Now if that is not apartheid I don't know what is. And yet, america says nothing and does nothing which causes anger in the arab world against Isreal and America.
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