Re: Do Mac owners learn to drive / ride?

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Well, indeed, they have the book version I guess but I was a bit taken
aback that something so basic / 'common' just might not be available
for the Mac. That if that's all you had what would you do?

But how would your daughter learn from the software if your house had no
electricity?

Not sure where you live Rowland but luckily we do actually have
electricity?

[snip]

Let's try again: but what if you didn't have electricity?

What if we all had hover cars ..

Umm. I don't think you've quite understood what a hypothetical question
is, have you?

The hypothesis I am proposing is what if you didn't have electricity.

As you can see, there is no mention of hover cars - strange that you
should bring up the subject. Is it that you want a hover car yourself
and just can't get the idea out of your mind? Best visit the toy shop,
I think.

It's a hypothetical question, you see - I didn't realise you were so
unsophisticated and ignorant that you don't know what one is.

Well now you do (see, even you can learn stuff!) ;-)

I'm an eternal optimist, and live my life assuming that most people have
fully functioning brains on their shoulders.

Discovering that someone doesn't have such an organ is something I learn
about people quite often and it always saddens me - but that doesn't
stop me assuming that any given person *does* have a functioning brain,
and I'll treat them as such until proven otherwise.

You have proven that you don't have one - so I'm sad. That's all.

It's not
meant to be a question about your reality now, but about a potential
reality.

Again, where you live maybe ... ;-)

Like I say, you don't seem to have got the hang of this `hypothesis'
idea. Clearly too complicated an idea for you to understand.

If you still don't understand what a hypothetical question is,
I suggest you look up the concept on the Web.

Sorry, all too hypothetical for me Rowland ..

Ah - oh well. Was it your education that let you down, or are you just
short of brains?

<sigh> It's a shame that you're so wilfully ignorant, but there's
nothing to be done with people like you except keep you away from
anything important so you can't mess up the world for decent folk.

I'm an engineer and
don't want to come back with you to the dark ages on this occasion
(thanks).

My word, you are making some lunatic assumptions, aren't you? I
suggested that you consider a hypothetical situation and your response
is to think that the hypothetical situation I propose might apply to me?

Wow!

That takes some serious ignorance, that does.

<shakes head in despair at the state of modern education>

I expect it's far too late for you to learn anything new, so I shan't
attempt to get you to understand what is meant by `hypothetical
question' since you clearly don't have the intellectual capacity to
understand the concept.

Don't worry about it - it's not *your* fault, I don't suppose. Just
don't play with matches and make sure there's always a responsible adult
around when you're using scissors.

The point is that it seems your daughter can't work with books - what's
wrong with the way you brought her up?

Who said anything about *can't* Rowland (oh yes, *you* did)!

You did.

Your concern about her need for the software indicated that this must be
the case - if that were not so, your concern would be entirely
irrational and unjustifiable.

(don't worry if you don't understand my reasoning above; I don't suppose
you can. But it's normal intellectual analysis of a situation - just
what a normally educated and normally intelligent person would do to
figure out what's really going on. As such, I expect it's completely
beyond your capacity to understand - best not to comment on it, really,
just accept that this is how it is and you'll never understand because
you don't have the brains)

It seems to me that you've not developed beyond a very primitive mindset
and don't have the intellectual capacity to cope with anything but
things you can see in front of you - you don't seem able to cope with
the concept of a hypothetical question, for example, which is what one
might expect from a half-educated technician such as yourself (you told
me that's what you are with your claim to be an engineer coupled with
evidence that you don't understand what a hypothetical question is - no
professional engineer has trouble with that idea, so you must be a
technician in a job that has the title `engineer').

Ah well - no point in trying to get through to someone as ignorant and
intellectually limited as yourself.

Cheerio - and look on the bright side: stupid, ignorant people are
usually happier than those of us with brains.

Rowland.

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