Delightfully abstruse, yet incapable of giving one's foe credit.
AH, nothing like engineering school, eh? The chicken and the egg. Does the engineering mind come first, or does the school predate the engineer? Could be biblical in it's proportions, yes?
To say that "No idea" and "I don't know" are simple is to belabor the obvious. Magnificent? Not unless you think the Dems did a "magnificent" job in the last election cycle.
As for the "Why" question in post 85: in context it's a carry-on of a thought first posed by you. Taken out of context, and distorted, it becomes a disembodied spirit with no texture or meaning.
You didn't mean to take me out of context, or distort my question, did you?
After all, you and I are in the business of facts, good or bad, aren't we? Men like us should spend little or no time on that which lowers our gentlemanly, rational capacities.
Why? Because.
> Does the engineering mind come first, or does the school predate the engineer?
The engineering mind. There were people out to determien the way the world *really* worked, and how to utilize that info, long before there were schools to teach it.
> "No idea" and "I don't know"... Magnificent?
You betcha. The beginning of wisdom is the realization that you are missing information. If you are presented with a question that you don't know the answer to, and you just pull out some pat response to it... that is the end of wisdom.
> You didn't mean to take me out of context, or distort my question, did you?
There *was* no context to your "Why?" in post 85.