OT: Evaluating an Application

Sat Dec 21 08:22:33 PST 2019

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> To: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> Cc: Laura Brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com>; Filepro_List <filepro-
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> Subject: Re: OT: Evaluating an Application
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> The collective IQ has already dropped. I am 57 years old and people weren't this
> stupid when I was a kid. I talked to older relatives and they all agree with me
> 100%. It isn't my imagination.
> 
> Parenting is a lost art. They don't want you to discipline your kids. Or make them
> earn money or privileges. "Everyone is a winner" with a participation trophy.
> Ken and I aren't perfect, but we never had to bail out one of our kids or try to
> talk our daughters out of pole dancing as a career choice. I have had people
> who have kids in jail, on drugs, etc tell me that my parenting stinks. It took a
> massive effort on my part to not point out their parenting failures (they were a
> family friend, so I had to bite my lip. It was not an argument that I could win.
> Even if I won, there would be a massive fallout.).
> 
Patenting today is sitting ones kids in front of the "Bub tube" or with a Gameboy  or Xbox to entertain them wile the parent does something else (ignores the kids).  Kids use these devices in restaurants so that that they will keep quiet and/or sit still.  This is called Progress.  I call it laziness  in that the kids are not being taught how to read a menu or understand what the food is. Many menus today have  kids menus with nothing but finger food, this is also true for many "adult" options.  I remember taking my daughter (then age 9) to a French restaurant and she asked me after reading the menu "what is Wild Boar". I told her it was roast pork.  That is what she ordered and ate. The older couple sitting next to our table were surprised at how well behaved she was and what she ordered.  I don't see this happening today as most American Children are given a device to keep them quiet and entertained at what I would consider way past their bed time. (yes, baby sitters are expensive but they were when my daughter was young (she is almost 50 today).  The Europeans raise their kids properly, they know how to behave in public places and usually are not using an electronic device to entertain them seleves.

Laura is correct  in that it is mostly Asian children who are scoring well on tests.  Their parents have a work ethic that they pass on to their children.  Too bad parents today are not passing on a work ethic to their children.  IN many cases they just don't know how as they were not taught.  

I better quit here as I could go on about today's morae's

Richard Kreiss 

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> Laura Brody
> 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:49 PM Fairlight via Filepro-list < filepro-
> list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 03:34:25PM -0500, Laura Brody via Filepro-list
> > thus spoke:
> > > I have been using "good, cheap, or fast; pick any two" as a test. If
> > > the customer "gets it" and picks which two are most important, I
> > > move forward with giving him/her a quote. If I get a blank stare and a "I
> want all 3"
> > > demand, it is time to cut them loose. The potential customer is too
> > stupid
> > > to deal with and will cost me 10x in aggravation and Tums than I
> > > will
> > make
> > > in profit. Red flag. Warning Will Robinson! Abort, abort, abort! In
> > > the past, I have ignored this red flag and I got burned every single
> > > time. I don't care what my cash flow is at the moment, this customer
> > > is going to make me wish that I never got into the computer
> > > business. They are going
> > to
> > > drive me nuts, work extra hard to clean up a mess I will warn them
> > > about and as a cherry on top, they will try to stiff me with the
> > > bill when everything goes to hell because I did it the way they
> > > insisted that I do it.  Just not worth it.
> >
> > 100% agreed.  I've learned to cut people loose, unless I am utterly
> > desperate, which (blessedly) hasn't happened in a decade or so.  And
> > even then, I would be second-guessing that decision...
> >
> > > I recently heard about a movie called "Idiocracy" by Mike Judge. It
> > > tells of an average Army guy who volunteers to go into a hibernation
> > > box for a year. He wakes up 500 years later. He is arrested and sent
> > > to jail. They test his IQ and he is the smartest guy on the planet,
> > > by far. The movie explains that smart people wait until their
> > > careers are set and the
> > market
> > > is good, etc. and never have kids. On the other hand, dumb people
> > > are having sex with anyone that is marginally willing. Our example
> > > dumb guy
> > has
> > > 7 kids and the wife is pregnant again. "I thought you was on the pill".
> > So
> > > is the neighbor lady, and his other girl friend. A couple of
> > > generations
> > of
> > > this and we have 300+ people with an IQ below 75. I don't think that
> > > we have to wait 500 years for this to happen. I peg it at 50 years or less.
> >
> > What makes you think it hasn't been happening for the last 30 years?
> > Parenting as I knew it is formally dead.  What we have is the result,
> > along with the attendant entitled brats who think the world owes them
> > 100km-wide Safe Spaces.
> >
> > Seriously, the collective IQ seems to have dropped sharply in the last
> > three decades.
> >
> > m->
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