On Sunday 23 December 2007 11:03:42 pm Stevens wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 18:11, Terry Eck wrote:
From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary: idiot, 1: a person afflicted with idiocy; esp: a feebleminded person having a mental age not exceeding three years and requiring complete custodial care.
I think you mean an ignorant person.
Nope. Idiot is the correct word to describe the vast majority of otherwise "educated" people who sit in front of a computer. Their actions fit the dictionary definition to a T. Just ask anyone who has worked desktop support. I know degreed professionals that will call up and tell me that they can't get on the internet when what they really mean is that they cannot access a web page somewhere. They don't understand what Internet Exploder or Firefox is but they know if they can get into Yahoo (which is their home page). They use web-based email instead of a local pop3 client only because they cannot understand the difference, even after it is explained for the umpteenth time. After all that, they still cannot understand that their email is in some server in Northern California (with Yahoo mail, of course) Etc ad infinitum.
The scary part is that these people vote.
I say again: IDIOTS
Stevens, Be careful calling the names and showing so little understanding how big is human kind knowledge. Doctor, lawyer, financial advisor, teller, car mechanic, electronic repairer, plumber, electrician, roofer, etc, etc, don't complain when customer can't describe problem or his ideas using exact names, it doesn't matter how educated or not is a customer. Doctor that doesn't know plumbing is not considered as unusual, but in your opinion the same doctor that doesn't know how to use computer is?! What's wrong in this picture? Computers are far more complex than plumbing, even in the most rudimentary use. Book that describes computer basics has few hundred pages. How many pages is needed to describe plumbing from A to Z ? -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org