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Originally Posted by stonetools
well, it may sound like nonsense, but it does have the virtue of truth.
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Argument By Dismissal:
an idea is rejected without saying why.
Dismissals usually have overtones. For example, "If you don't like it, leave the country" implies that your cause is hopeless, or that you are unpatriotic, or that your ideas are foreign, or maybe all three. "If you don't like it, don't buy ebooks. The publishers won't miss your dollars anyway."
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Originally Posted by stonetools
In the future, the average user is mostly going to have a device that can read all formats-a PSP, a tablet or a smart-phone. Indeed, one of the reasons to avoid dedicated ereaders will be precisely to avoid this issue.
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Moving The Goalposts :
if your opponent successfully addresses some point, then say he must also address some further point. If you can make these points more and more difficult (or diverse) then eventually your opponent must fail
"Migrating to another device doesn't matter because in the future everyone will have a device that magically reads all formats."