Human Chips

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I don't know if I'd act so superior, tw. You could have done the same 30 seconds of Googling.

There is not a single word that even implies am I feeling superior. If you think otherwise, you are reading into posts what was not intended. In fact, assume I intentionally misword things just so that others will have an emotional response. I don't. But to understand what is posted, make that assumption. I have no emotional attachment nor any anger at Mr or Mrs Clodfobble. As far as I am concerned, both made a human error.

The point was that Clodfobble could have done that search in 30 seconds. I even provided assistance by doing some work for her - www.rfidtimes.org. I also tried desperately to find evidence in her own citations that proved her point. I am not being smug. I am being tw which means I reply mostly to things often overlooked by others and I viciously demand honesty. Nothing smug or 'superior' about that.

It does not matter if Clodfobble was correct in every claim. A claim made without supporting facts from a credible source - and emotional outbursts when that necessary demand for supporting facts is made again - is totally irrelevant. Her claims were contrary to other existing trends. A simple citation to demonstrate technology has recently advanced significantly could have eliminated all that emotion. Instead she only provided two citations (the better one from Motorola) that provided no such numbers.

Clodfobble has simply demonstrated again why so many so hate mankind as to not always need 'why' to know. Again, minor was that Tx Tag uses RFID. More important was that the claim was made on speculation and then emotion was used rather than facts. Anyone who does not grasp that repeatedly stated point, by now, is not reading. Demonstrated from the very beginning (with no reason for anyone to be emotional) is why Clodfobble knew something without first asking why (ie. the numbers). That point provided with reasons why her claim was suspect.

Provided were many reasons to doubt her original claim. Rather than provide useful facts, there was an emotional outburst followed by two citations that did not provide useful information. Blood to sharks.

Clodfobble really did not know if it was RFID. She used speculation probably based in hearsay - the same reason why so many waste money on Listerene or believe a president who routinely lies.

Nothing smug here. This same standard confronted MaggieL when she was promoting Saddam's mythical 'WMD for attacking America'. I don't care if anyone hated me for it. I went after one thing so important everywhere in life. The irrefutilbe fact.

I not apologize for doing what is expected of everyone. However Clodfobble may owe an apology for repeatedly knowing without even knowing why (the underlying reasons) AND for then becoming emotional when reasons to doubt her claim were provided. I neither expect nor really care if that apology exists. An adult Clodfobble would simply take logical facts from this experience (speculation without supporting facts), prosper, and have zero emotion over this thread.

Again, Happy Monkey demonstrated how quickly Clodfobble could have obtained simple supporting facts from a credible source. That poltical reporter is was not credible for reasons provided previously. That is the point - and nothing else even implied.