ETXTBSY RE: "text file busy" and (was RE: FW: OT: broken/useless ansi...)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:10:20PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> A "management issue" is somewhat like the fool that put a pliable styrofoam
> cup of hot coffee between her legs at McD's drive-thru.  This bug is
> more akin to a Ford Pinto bursting into flames, or an Audi's accelerator
> sticking and sending someone into an accident.

One nit: NHTSA decided that the Audi incident -- you know, the thing
responsible for causing the auto industry to spend an extra $150M of
our money on interlocks? -- *was the fault of the driver*.  Her foot
slipped, she didn't want to admit it and take the brunt of the
accident, she lied to everyone for years.

See _Galilleo's_Revenge_, an excellent book about junk science and the
courts, for more on that.

> Any attempt to justify this unexpected and incorrect behaviour is pretty
> much futile.  One is always welcome to try.  It can be entertaining to
> knock down the straw men--for a while.

Indeed.

Cheers,
-- jra
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