- 21 Jan 11, 18:19#235693
I hope you can see how calling someone a "genius" in the sense you just did could be seen as condescending and could have been left off of your statement. Please think twice before you do it again. If your relationship with a user is comfortable enough that they'd be ok with that sort of comment, then it would be ok. But see how certain things are so in a state of flux and not black and white at all therefore they're very difficult to moderate unless you take the user's past history and or intent into consideration?
But if we're going to argue on "technicalities" anything that hasn't YET happened in our space time continuum... IS a prediction. We can have a rouge asteroid hit our planet and wipe us all out and so your prediction about Great Britain's race would be woefully wrong. Unlikely, but until it happens it's simply a very safe prediction not fact at all.
I predict that everyone foolish enough to try and predict this season will get it laughably wrong.
i predict theres a world champion at the end?
i predict at least one car has a crash throughoit the entire season?
i predict the ferrari cars are red?
i predict lewis will race for mclaren?
Three out of those four aren't predictions, they're facts. Nice try, genius.
As for the other one, well now that is a prediction. It's not, however, a prediction of the season in the sense I was getting at - which is to say, I meant anyone who tried to predict the narrative of the season would be wrong (On at least one count).
If you start predicting tiny little things you can guarantee you're right, but they cease to be predictions and just become statements. For instance, I predict there will be a race in Great Britain. Technically, I'm right, there will be. But that's not a prediction.
I hope you can see how calling someone a "genius" in the sense you just did could be seen as condescending and could have been left off of your statement. Please think twice before you do it again. If your relationship with a user is comfortable enough that they'd be ok with that sort of comment, then it would be ok. But see how certain things are so in a state of flux and not black and white at all therefore they're very difficult to moderate unless you take the user's past history and or intent into consideration?
But if we're going to argue on "technicalities" anything that hasn't YET happened in our space time continuum... IS a prediction. We can have a rouge asteroid hit our planet and wipe us all out and so your prediction about Great Britain's race would be woefully wrong. Unlikely, but until it happens it's simply a very safe prediction not fact at all.
"I don't want to be part of a forum where everyone has differing opinions." Boom...
no predictions needed 
