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Subject: Re: SPARK User Group 2008
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On Tue, 27 May 2008 16:07:33 -0400, Jeffrey R. Carter  
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> wrote:

> Simon Wright wrote:
>> I don't understand.
>>  Either you *know* that iFacts has got problems/has failed, in which
>> case *WHY DON'T YOU POST THE EVIDENCE SO WE CAN SEE IT TOO*, or you
>> *assume* that no news is bad news.
>
> Don't you recognize proof by blatant assertion?
>

One of my favorite rhetorical devices, especially when it's a peripheral  
phrase in a statement about something else.  Amazing how those slip under  
people's radar.