>> How can one group of humans be so stupid? It boggles my mind! I mean,
>> hell, you *know* it's bad when the friggin' expert tells you to use
>> something else...
>
> I dunno. Maybe they think that they are as much experts as the experts.
>
> There's a much discussed study on incompetency drifting around and it's
> results, while a little scientifically questionable, show that the less 
> you
> know about a subject, the more you believe you know and the less you 
> believe
> other people know. Conversly, the more you know, the less you believe you
> know and the more you believe that others know. It actually makes a bit of
> sense when you think about it.
>
> Don't have it handy. Maybe someone has a link.
>
>> People scare me. :-(
>
> Yup. Me too.
>
> I had a bunch of business people at my desk on friday telling me how to 
> run
> my server. I doubt they'd ever seen a database server in their lives
>
> (full story - I took the server partially offline during lunch for 3 min 
> to
> do an emergency clear of a system cache to prevent a likely repeated 10-15
> min loss of service later in the day. From the way they acted, you'd think
> I'd taken it offline for an hour or 2 at peak business time.)

I was reading a technical book on storyline scripting for games and about
chapter 5 the author starts saying how great Tarrot cards are... chapter 6 
is
probably about blood sacrifice of 30yr old virgin nerds to Bill Gates god of 
MS.

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