27th September 2006, 1:14 PM
I hadn't read the twisting part, but yeah now that is an accurate, though meaningless, statement for them to make. Sort of like "We sold more in the past year than they did for exactly 5 minutes if you only count one version of their product and all versions of ours!". True, but misleading, which was their goal. It's TRUTHINESS BABY!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)