Bob Klahn -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 BK>  ...

 EH>> You can't erase DVDs, only DVD-RWs. Well, technically you
 EH>> can erase any of them mechanically, but then you can't put
 EH>> anything back on them.

 BK>  DVD-RWs are DVDs. Digital Video Disk.

It is a specific type of DVD that allows you to record and erase data. To
use the generic term of DVD to refer to a DVD-RW is a mistake at best and
dishonest at worst.

 BK>>>  Oh, and my DVD recorder says a DVD-RW is erasable as much as
 BK>>>  1000 times.

 EH>> Yes, 1000 *IS* a certain amount of times.

 BK>  It is a certain number of times.

Semantics. Is that all you have?

 BK>  And there is a limit to the erase-rewrite capabilities of every
 BK>  flash drive I have run across. So what?

Again, you are trying to be dishonest.

 BK>>>  Hulett never misses an opportunity to lie about anyone who
 BK>>>  disagrees with him.

 EH>> Show me the lie.

 BK>  There was no dishonesty in what I said. I told the literal and
 BK>  demonstrable truth. You tried to twist it.

You're the one twisting everything.

 BK>  **************************************************************************
 EH>>>> Klahn is being dishonest again. He knows that commercial
 EH>>>> DVDs manufactured with data already on them are not
 EH>>>> erasable, he also knows that DVD+R/-Rs are not erasable.
 BK>  **************************************************************************

Where's the lie?

Ed

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