I take it either you, or someone you know, tried to get away with a fake version of reality, and used "denying isn't the same as lying" to try to escape responsibility?
Anything you do with the intention that someone accept as true, something that is not, is deceptive (the same applies for the intention that someone accept as false, something that is true, of course).
Unless you are a performance artist of some kind, and the person you are deceiving expects it as part of the show, then whether you call it lying, dissembling, denying something is true that IS actually true,obfuscating, creative imagining for personal gain, or "telling the REAL truth as I wish it was," (I actually had someone explain why I should LOVE them for their lies, with THAT claptrap), then you might as well call it lying.
It isn't what you CALL it that's important; it's what your intentions are, what you do with it that matters.
The poll question isn't specific enough. "Pakistan" is a nation, a people, a government. Did they ALL know? No. Did SOMEONE know? Certainly. Was it a purposeful act by the heads of the Pakistani government to hide OBL? I doubt it. Do we have ANY reasonable amount of information yet to make a judgement? Ha-ha!....No.
What would have led you to the answer, was if you had copied down the apps that showed high CPU usage, or high I/O reads, or high memory usage. Then when you CAN access the internet, from somewhere else if need be, then look those things up. Malware can do as you describe, and so can anti-malware that is out of control. Since you were having trouble accessing your own modem, that would suggest that it wasn't the OBL news tying things up.
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RE: is denying same as lying?
I take it either you, or someone you know, tried to get away with a fake version of reality, and used "denying isn't the same as lying" to try to escape responsibility?Anything you do with the intention that someone accept as true, something that is not, is deceptive (the same applies for the intention that someone accept as false, something that is true, of course).
Unless you are a performance artist of some kind, and the person you are deceiving expects it as part of the show, then whether you call it lying, dissembling, denying something is true that IS actually true,obfuscating, creative imagining for personal gain, or "telling the REAL truth as I wish it was," (I actually had someone explain why I should LOVE them for their lies, with THAT claptrap), then you might as well call it lying.
It isn't what you CALL it that's important; it's what your intentions are, what you do with it that matters.