Re: Otp POLITICAL and I do not agree with all of it but it makes a person think

2006-02-28, Responding to Nann Bell...
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 5:26:28 -0500, MikesBrain wrote
(in message <ozVMf.69907$DM.24626@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

you are quoting an incomplete link and attributing it to
Harv. Harv posted a link to a specific flash presentation
on this site, you however are presenting the home page of
the site as being what Harv posted. The original link is
http://www.inlibertyandfreedom.com/Flash/Think_It_Over.swf

No. I'm posting what you get in a text-only browser, and
what you get when you take a look at what the SWF link is a
part of, which I've already explained, the "target site".
You want me to explain it again maybe?

Well, I've been ignoring your rants on the subject and
only started looking because of p[osts from a couple of
other peoople. But I still see little purpose in arguing
abouut the supposed "target" site of a posted link, when a
person obviously posts only the specific link that was
intended to be viewed.

"Rants"? I'd prefer the term "ripostes".

If you don't have flash, why would you look at a link that
is obviously a Flash site in a text-only browser?
Obviously, you are not going to see what the original
poster intended you to see if you are not using a
flash-enabled site.

True (and obvious), but... a site with a SWF file will also
(typically) have supporting/related material viewable in a
text-only browser. Logical?

BTW, I hadn't loked at this originally as I knew it would
take a while to load on dial-up and I didn't have the time
then.

I have dial-up. So what?

So, you made your choice to look at a flash site on
dial-up despite using a text-only browser. That was your
choice, for whatever reason you chose to pursue a flash
site with a text only browser.

FWIW. A text-only browser is fast as it doesn't load
graphics, (or "nasties" come to that), and is just the job
for checking site contents quickly and without leaving a
great long list of things you downloaded without knowing it
on your ISP's records.

I chose not to lok at the site originally because of
having dial-up and not wanting to wait for it to load
through dial-up with a browser that has Flash enabled.
That was my choice. I stated my choice.

Yup. Got that. I could ask why you didn't look at the site
first, as this would be a lot easier than waiting for a SWF
file to load up through a 56k modem, but WTH, everybody's
got their own ways huh? ;\

You're wandering Nann. This has little or nothing to do with
the rest of your post here.

Gee, do you suppose that might be why that paragraph was
prefaced with "BTW"?
LOL

Ok, ya got me on that one.

If you want to "revue" the site
in question, feel free, but lets not confuse the issues any
more than they already are m'kay?

well, the original subject line of this thread remains
unchanged. I spoke to a couple of different aspects of
that original subject line - 1) what Harv's original
posted link was and 2) a response to a particular line in
that original link. Both are quite appropriate within the
origins of this thread.

Apparently, for some. I wish I'd known that earlier.

And I signalled a shift in direction through prefacing
the paragraph with "BTW". (I could truly diverge now with
a discussion of psychological type and thinking processes,
but that truly should be a different thread.)

Ok ok ok! Ya got me already!

beyond this, I am happy to participate in civil and
reasonable discussion, but I will not participate in nor
respond to invective and insults.

I feel very much the same way, but do feel moved to respond
as appropriate to people telling me what I meant etc.

As it is, it may be better to let the thing drop at the
earliest convenience. We don't want another 60-post+ thread
like the last one. :(


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