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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Yep, I agree... that is a nitpick. I'd also call it "mincing words." 
Either way you slice it, it was rhetoric and, as I said, in my defense I was making a snarky reference to the first use of said rhetoric... in this thread.
-Pie |
Yes, but you do have to be careful in an argument to not take something your opponent said as hyperbole-to-make-a-point ("dealing with Sony is like dealing with the devil") and start acting as though they said it literally ("Sony is the devil") to smear them into looking foolish and paranoid. I'm not saying you were doing that, but it certainly passed the strawman sniff test, for future reference.
I'll blame the internet that I didn't hear your sardonic tone over the tubes.
I do think that Sony has a lot to answer for, but I'll just +1 Hellmark's post. There's a reason why I don't buy from the Sony eBook store and there's a reason why I don't have the Sony Reader software on my computer. Sony has been involved in very serious privacy allegations in the past, and there's only so many oopsies a company gets in my book before it starts to add up to a perceived disregard for customer rights.
