On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote: > > <snip> > > When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish > idiots.
This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something. > <snip> > > Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers > to wise up, instead of trying to cover up their stupidity with airbags, > we'd have a lot less deaths due to vehicle accidents. Another bumper sticker: "Airbags: The Backup Mail Exchangers of the Automobile Industry" You could probably add a couple of {fnord}s in there for good measure. > <snip> > > Others would rather just have their doctor prescribe something when thier > shitty diet makes them sick. Then I have to pay the elevated health > insurance costs ... now they want to turn the US into a socialized > medicin country, so every citizen is _forced_ to pay for all the people > who don't take care of themselves. Speaking as a citizen of a country that has socialized medicine (Canada), I can say that the expense probably does not nearly approach what you think. I compared notes with an American friend just the other day. She pays in a month what I pay in a year. I think our health care is subdisized by our income tax (we pay much more than you Americans as I understand it) but even that probably doesn't make up the difference. That having been said, I do agree with your point as it relates to user education, simply because by adopting a policy of misinforming users you are committing yourself to maintaining a more and more elaborate structure of, essentially, lies. Reductio ad absurdum &c. Better to let them know off the bat what the limitations are. Example: Users already have a completely unjustified perception of email as being a reliable and immediate transmission medium, which it clearly is not. Since users are the ones who will have to bear the cost when reality pays them a wake-up call, it serves everyone to disabuse them of this notion as quickly as possible. Gently if you have to, rudely if you can. :) > <snip> > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com -- Danny _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"