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On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2009-02-05, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The type of user I don't like is the ignorant type. Innocent |
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> > users are ok, they don't know, but ignorant users choose not |
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> > to know. |
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> Surely there are things you use without knowing how they work. |
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> You probably use a phone, but do you _really_ know how the |
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> cellular system works? |
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that is not needed. But reading the manual of the phone is. |
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> How about the landline phone system? |
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> The water supply system? Sewage treatment? Do you know how a |
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> refinery works? A chemical plant? How about the CPU in your |
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> computer. Do you actually know how it works? |
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irrelevant to the problem discussed. |
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But yes, I know how sewage treatment works. |
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> We're all ignorant about 99% of the things we use. You just |
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> happened to choose a different 1% than some other people. |
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no. Some people read the manuals that come with the tools they get, others |
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don't and then complain when something does not work or sue someone because |
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they hurt themselves. The second group are idiots. There are lots of idiots - |
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but you should NEVER cater for them or you create more of them. And the last |
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thing this world needs is more idiots. |
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