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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!167.142.225.5!news.netins.net!geoffrey From: geoffrey@netins.net (geoffrey alexander) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 22:52:13 -0500 Organization: The alt.movies.kubrick Newsgroup Lines: 22 Message-ID: <geoffrey-ya023380001404972252130001@news.netins.net> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <3345FD90.4A3@kashmir.net> <5ipv9f$itd$1@halcyon.com> <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: unin-01-19.dialup.netins.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20181 comp.os.linux.misc:169784 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39078 In article <5iqpqu$kfm$1@hecate.umd.edu>, marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin) wrote: > Tim Smith (tzs@halcyon.com) wrote: > : Do you apply this same standard to all tools? For instance, should people > : need to understand something about how petroleum is refined before they > : put gas in their cars? Should one need to know thermodynamics in order > : to make one's refrigerator get colder? Should one be conversant in rim > : flushes and siphon jets before one flushes one's toilet? > Yes to all questions above, including the toilet flushing. An *educated* > human being must be aware of these things, or at least of some of them. > The "I wanna it to work, but don't wanna know how it works" is an attitude > of an arrogant ignorant idiot taking everything around him for granted. > Very common in US though. Take it to the necessary degree, too common everywhere :). Good point though Half of Reality is common sense. The rest, is two hours pondering it. The remainder, can be gotten from a book, of an afternoon. Ignorance is >chosen<. g.