Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: NTY: Buy Apple gadgets, use Google services, buy media from Amazon

Posted by glen ropella on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/NTY-Buy-Apple-gadgets-use-Google-services-buy-media-from-Amazon-tp7584915p7585021.html

On 02/24/2014 06:08 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Knowing the limits of one’s own knowledge is an admirable trait, i.e. the more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know. What really gripes me are people who seem to get some kind of perverse pleasure in their own ignorance. “Oh, that’s way too complex for me to understand” is not that uncommon an attitude when it comes to science and tech.

I agree.  That's one of the most annoying expressions.  It seems to come
in 2 stripes: 1) those who actually believe it, which may indicate an
inferiority complex and 2) those practicing the humility topos,
passively aggressively asserting that those who take the time to
learn/understand that subject are geeks or wasting their time or
somesuch.  I don't know which is more annoying (1) or (2).

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⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella
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