OT: My Vote on Fairlite -- I demand a recount :-)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:43:29PM -0700, Bill Campbell thus spoke:
> On Tue, May 25, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >Hell, I'm from Florida...

> >I've seen Mark go off on people on this list in the last
> >couple years. But then, I've seen JPR, JE, and for that
> >matter, myself, go off on people.

> >This was not going off.

> >I suspect anyone who thinks it was has never been paid to fix
> >the sort of breakage he's talking about -- or worse, been the
> >network admin responsible for it's results, even if they often
> >had no control to prevent it.

> I've seen things like Mark described happen to people I don't
> normally consider stupid (e.g me when my program that checks
> for missing user home directories, and fixes their permissions
> didn't check to see where the home directory was -- and started
> merrily doing a ``chmod -R username: /'', not exactly what I
> wanted :-).

> On the other hand, I've had to deal with customers who complained that
> their floppy disk drive was bad, only to find their disks conveniently
> stored by the computer -- held to the side of a file cabinet with
> refrigerator magnets.

> There is, however, a big difference between stupidity and
> ignorance. Ignorance is curable while stupidity generally isn't
> (sometimes I wish it were more frequently terminal).

Was it not Eienstein who said "The difference between genius and
stupidity is that genius has limits".

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com