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Re: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: R ESTTut

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• Subject: Re: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN: R ESTTutorial)
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 19:10:19 +0000
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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote:

| Now why not turn that feature off given the disasters created 
| by leaving it on?

Because the entire point of a non-feature is to have it turned on by
default.  This maximizes the propagation of stupidity.

-- 
Moronization: a form of acculturation where people are encouraged to
anoint themselves with the supposed benefits of a technology without
understanding the engineering (or lack thereof.)

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