Ed Keith <e_d_k <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> > > I am not asking WHAT the rules are but a JUSTIFICATION
> > for them (which you
> > > have been incapable of providing so far).
> > 
> > I feel no need to provide a JUSTIFICATION to you for
> > anything.
> > 
> 
> Am I to interpret this to mean that the rules are purely arbitrary and
capricious with no though behind them? 

Tendentious.

A great deal of thought has been given to all aspects of the benchmarks game.

> I hope I am misinterpreting this statement, but can think of no other
interpretation

Poverty of imagination.