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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:49:51AM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Jos Vos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > This sounds as if this is bad: are you a communist?
> 
> This sounds as if you have reading problems. Are you an illiterate?

> [...] (Always remember that companies,
> like politicians, do not make statements to communicate information.
> They make statements to achieve a desired result. Their statements may
> happen to communicate information, but if and only if it helps to
> achieve their desired result.)

It's probably because of my reading problems that I read this as
"companies are bad and they are lying all the time".  I know it's not
said literally, but that's where "reading between the lines" comes in.

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