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To: Poohbah
Your pov appears to be as follows:

1. Those who have a complaint must make the affirmative case.

2. You reject any complaint if the plaintiff has a vested interest.

How, then, can any complaint merit your consideration.

98 posted on 07/24/2002 11:36:22 AM PDT by Deuce
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To: Deuce
1. Those who have a complaint must make the affirmative case.

Yes. It's as old as the history of rhetoric and debate. Those who are positively claiming something, such as "The earth is an oblate spheroid," must offer evidence to support said claim.

2. You reject any complaint if the plaintiff has a vested interest.

It's called "IV&V," for Independent Validation & Verification. That means that those with a pecuniary interest in selling gold at the highest possible price are not going to be my sole discriminant in determining the truth or falsity of a claim of gold market manipulation aimed at lowering the price of gold.

How, then, can any complaint merit your consideration.

Provide some IV&V. Is that too hard for you to understand?

101 posted on 07/24/2002 11:40:16 AM PDT by Poohbah
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