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Originally Posted by Doonge
I don't know. I asked if he was. And yeah I implied that autism had some part that are wrong (but some plus on the side aswell, they are just different, it's just a trade off sometimes). But when you know the diagnosis of somebody, sometimes it helps accepting and dealing with the deficiencies. Long shot related, but some people hate homosexuals at first, especially when they think it's a life choice (I'm not saying it's an excuse to hate), but the human mind is so that when they learn that some (especially males) are born like that and it's not a choice, they become more acceptant and "normal" (they behave less with the guts).
Anyway, since he took it as an insult, I think he's no autistic, so I just hate him (I'm joking ^^).
I think I understand what you mean by derogatory: I was indeed saying that I thought HarryT's way of discussing had flaws. Which I linked to some autists I met in my life. What's derogatory would be saying that I think he's expressing himself badly, correct?
I think you can hold an ebook. You could even hold thousands of them in a tiny USB key. If books are made of paper and glue and ink, ebook (their physical incarnation) are made of magnetic grains (or something else it depends what you use as storage solution, which can change with technology, but you can imagine some weird person storing binary data as big paper card deck). Perhaps we are talking about the limits of the word intagible, but I recall very old courses of philosophy where they said intangible was for stuff like ideas, our perception of color, etc... In a book, or ebook, the intangible part would be the story itself.
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You can hold what is holding the ebook but you cannot hold an ebook without a physical holder.
You could have said "HarryT, I think we are misunderstanding each other. Did you mean this or that?" See no name calling or implying.
Oh and on the gays, I know some females that knew from when they were young and others that decided after being hurt by too many males. (But on the second case, most were bisexuals to begin with.)