Except that in this case, "declined to answer" can mean a lot of things.
I'm unimpressed with the other two candidates' answers, but I do wish the editor would have left in Bush's exact response. If Bush had completely ignored the question or deemed it beneath his notice, then it would have been akin to option one of your analogy, or at least a slap in the face to the people who asked the question. As it is, we can only guess what he had intended by his refusal to answer.
I think you've just contradicted yourself. Bush passed on the question (option two in your analogy), which you stated does not answer the question. Therefore, it may be an answer, but it's not an answer to the question posed, and as such can be considered not to be an answer in this situation.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but for my case (and my friends'), the main reason why we prefer the smaller PS2 controller is because we have small hands. The XBox S controller is already big enough for us.
Then again, we're Asian, so we're small blokes in general.
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Just why were the Indymedia hard disks seized?
I get the feeling that this is a version of the Prisoner's Dilemma Game.
Funny, the guy in the picture doesn't resemble Clinton.
I'm unimpressed with the other two candidates' answers, but I do wish the editor would have left in Bush's exact response. If Bush had completely ignored the question or deemed it beneath his notice, then it would have been akin to option one of your analogy, or at least a slap in the face to the people who asked the question. As it is, we can only guess what he had intended by his refusal to answer.
I think you've just contradicted yourself. Bush passed on the question (option two in your analogy), which you stated does not answer the question. Therefore, it may be an answer, but it's not an answer to the question posed, and as such can be considered not to be an answer in this situation.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but for my case (and my friends'), the main reason why we prefer the smaller PS2 controller is because we have small hands. The XBox S controller is already big enough for us.
Then again, we're Asian, so we're small blokes in general.
Also, this is /., where a post about Mozilla can mysteriously turn to random politics.