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Old May 19th 17, 11:52 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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"Justin Tyme" wrote

| I was feeling a bit cranky yesterday and I took issue with Steve. His
| post was trolling. .... His intent was to troll.

Yes. Actually I block his posts now. Almost
without exception they're just angry rants
against Win10 with no real point.


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Old May 20th 17, 09:57 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 19 May 2017 10:54:00 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

"PeterC" wrote

| What was Einstein's definition of stupidity? - something like 'repeating
the
| same action and expecting a different outcome'.
| MS seems to have cracked it!

Apology for top posting:

Yes, I don't agree with the saying - I was just using it to take a poke at
MS.
As for the sledge hammer - I've used a 14lb one on a thick concrete path,
after using a 10lb one. I knew after a dozen or so blows that the 10lb
wouldn't, er, crack it so borrowed a bigger one. As it was the biggest
available to me, I kept going and it eventually worked (I'm 6'4" and was
bring down the hammer so hard that my feet were lifting off the ground).
According to Einstein I should have stopped after the first blow.
To praphrase a saying: 'making an idiot-proof path just breeds a bigger
idiot'.

Not arguing with your point, but I've never
understood that saying. I wonder if Einstein
really said it. It doesn't apply to hammering,
for instance. I might bang a sledge on an old
cast iron bathtub dozens of times. I fully expect
that one of those times will result in a broken
tub, even if the first 17 bangs didn't. Or turning
a key in a tricky lock. Sometimes it takes a few
tries. Or watering the lawn. The effect will be
different on a dry day compared to after a recent
rain. Or having sex after having cleared up a
disagreement. Same action, much better
outcome.

There's no action that's not interconnected
with numerous other factors, so we might actually
more accurately say that stupidity is doing the
same action and expecting the *same* outcome.
Or more to the point, that stupidity is thinking it's
possible to repeat an action at all. It's easy to think
of good examples of that "stupidity". We all tend
to try to repeat pleasures: Cancun was nice last
year. Let's do that again. But this year it rained.
Woops. That chocolate ice cream was so good.
Let's get some more. But now I have a stomach
ache. Woops. That sex was incredible the first two
times. Let's do it again. But now we've just done it
too many times and we both feel awkward. Woops.
That beer... That joint... It's often tempting to
think we can repeat pleasures, but then it turns out
that it's actually not the same act and we've only
"prostituted the present to the future", trying to
get a cheap thrill at the expense of actually relating
to what's happening.



--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway
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Old May 20th 17, 02:34 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , FredW
writes:
On Fri, 19 May 2017 18:52:07 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Justin Tyme" wrote

| I was feeling a bit cranky yesterday and I took issue with Steve. His
| post was trolling. .... His intent was to troll.

Yes. Actually I block his posts now. Almost
without exception they're just angry rants
against Win10 with no real point.


hear, hear.


Suggestions about how to block posts _about_ his posts welcomed ... (-:
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