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Good Reasons to Avoid 10, Summary
"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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Good Reasons to Avoid 10, Summary
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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Good Reasons to Avoid 10, Summary
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 ... (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "You _are_ Zaphod Beeblebrox? _The_ Zaphod Beeblebrox?" "No, just _a_ Zaphod Beeblebrox. I come in six-packs." (from the link episode) |
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