On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:57 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dear Anonymous Coward,
On Saturday 17 September 2005 21:24, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
Oh pompous one
Pompous? I think we're using different dictionaries.
You, however, are displaying condescension and paternalism in your insistence in protecting people from something that you admit doesn't adversely affect you. [stuff cut]
That is what we do as programmers. We make the big scary system, which we have no problem dealing with, safe and comfortable for those of lesser understanding. Delivering a system on which your user can hurt himself is the quickest route to the unemployment line. I am sorry if our ingrained habits offend you. -- There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. -- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner