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I have to say, by the way, that you are easily one of the most obnoxious people I’ve had the misfortune of communicating with. You should try following the lead of the one respectful individual in this thread. If we had this discussion in person, it would’ve certainly ended poorly for you (as I’m sure has happened before). Then again, had we had this discussion in person, I am certain you wouldn’t be as much of a jackass as you think you can afford to be behind the anonymity of a computer.

I’ll ask you not to respond to me and to never do so again. This is meant to be a civil request. I’ll do the same.

It is not civil, not with that highly uncivil, insulting, ad hominem attack lead in you preceded your oh, so "civil" request with.

Sir. The obnoxious Jackass here has been you, from your first insulting, ad hominem laden, trolling post you made to me, to your final insulting, ad hominem attempt to extricate yourself. I am not obliged to abide by your dictates when YOU again insult me, and propose to walk away, claiming victory in your own mind.

If you comment again in a Mac thread, I will respond when you make comments that are obvious wrong. I will NOT leave obvious falsehoods such as your libelous untruthful claim that Apple was including handheld devices in the audited count of computers to achieve an over 10% US market share—a FRAUDULENT ACT that, if true, would have resulted in both civil suits and criminal charges being brought against Apple management—or your totally misunderstood and mistaken explanation of Market Share itself, stand for others to read. They will be corrected by me with the true facts and data, especially in a thread that I started.

I told you, early on, if you don't like a subject, don't comment. Others have told you that you were wrong... yet you persist. You have been presented with the facts which you proceed to ignore. I have used your OWN LINKS to show you they don't quite say what you say they say, or that they support what I said. You ignore it.

You continue to persist in insisting YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WITH THE TRUTH despite others telling you, you are wrong. You backtrack and try to revise already existing statements you made and try to make them into something else. Even when quoted back to you, you fail to admit you were wrong, and instead, like a petulant child, you come up with an excuse.

You are, like the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass," one who claims words mean ONLY WHAT SHE SAYS THEY MEAN. That is not the real world, Flint. I told you my degree is in Economics... and words in economics have specific meanings. I use words in their classic meanings; not in some "loosey goosey," feel whatever I want it to mean at the moment, way. "Market Share" has a specific defined meaning, and it was being used in these articles, by these writers, IN THAT SPECIFIC MEANING. You are NOT permitted to change that meaning to your Red Queen meaning willy-nilly, so you can win. This thread is NOT on the other side of the looking glass!

You take an unknown-to-us, extreme minority position (vis-a-vis, the quality of Shakespeare's canon)—shared by no one but you—so that you can EX CATHEDRA proclaim something that gives your position and opinion authority over everyone else's opinion, and that somehow magically allows you free reign to criticize whatever you like, as you like. It does not! There ARE standards of critique. Your's does not meet that standard. It's just more Red Queen thinking!

Despite your nasty attitude toward me, I have attempted to be civil toward you all along. YOU sir, on the other hand, have been flinging insults and ad hominem attacks at me from the beginning. If you expect to be treated civilly, then act like an adult instead of like an adolescent brat throwing spitwads and tantrums. Now, you continue this by announcing you are taking your ball and going home, after throwing more insults and ad hominem attacks at me. . . and you have the bald audacity to make it MY FAULT! BAH!

YOU, sir, are a thread troll. You admitted it. You came into this thread to troll... to disrupt. You have succeeded. That puts you on the wrong side of Jim Robinson's edicts against this activity.

You are free to comment if you chose, or not. I suggest not.

Hi Sword,

> To: flintsilver7; antiRepublicrat; dayglored; ReignOfError

Please drop me from this thread, as I'm not following it. No offense intended to you or anyone; I'm just not reading it any more. Thanks.

Sword - this is the 2nd time (that I recall) you’ve in some way started talking lawyer-ease in some context....I swear - if you do it again, I’ll ban you. Go ahead and call your posse and whoever else, together - it ain’t gonna help you...This is your final warning.