An ad hominem is a fallacious argument that someone's thesis is wrong because of some particular bad thing one can say about that person. I never questioned anyone's thesis, let alone on the grounds of an ad hominem argument. Please learn what logical fallacies actually are before running around accusing people of them.
It's ad-hominems all the way down. He may be going for irony, but that snarky "In case you didn't know..." line kills it and veers back to targeting the person. (I know who JLG is. I just don't care.)
I know what you said. You didn't say word one about him being wrong .. or right either. You just laughed. IMHO That is a strongly implied negative statement on his accuracy.
I found the article to be a quite interesting look at the way that these companies are doing business with and against each other, and how the media makes narratives out of it. There seems to be a lot of truth in it. What JLG uses to good effect in the article is insider anecdotes.
I'm not that close to Apple or JLG that I have strong feelings about either one's point of view, I'm more interested in how the same driving forces will affect everyone.
Do you agree or disagree with the substance here? Try engaging with that.
I know what you said. You didn't say word one about him being wrong .. or right either. You just laughed. IMHO That is a strongly implied negative statement on his accuracy.
Bingo. Just because someone maybe didn't mean to imply something doesn't mean they didn't imply it.
I think Nixon's letter to Reagan was interesting and had a lot of truth as well, but that didn't stop me from laughing. I can't say I've seen any insight in what you've had to say, however.
Your defense of your first ad hominem is an ad hominem against the HN poster who called you out for it?
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