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From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
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Date: 13 Apr 1997 14:15:58 GMT
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Tim Smith (tzs@halcyon.com) wrote:
: Do you apply this same standard to all tools?  For instance, should people
: need to understand something about how petroleum is refined before they
: put gas in their cars?  Should one need to know thermodynamics in order
: to make one's refrigerator get colder?  Should one be conversant in rim
: flushes and siphon jets before one flushes one's toilet?
Yes to all questions above, including the toilet flushing. An *educated*
human being must be aware of these things, or at least of some of them.
The "I wanna it to work, but don't wanna know how it works" is an attitude
of an arrogant ignorant idiot taking everything around him for granted.
Very common in US though.

Marat