[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
wrote:

> On 06/03/2014 07:19 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> Ignorance is innocently not knowing something. Stupid is ignorance by
>> choice.
>>
> Or genetics.


I tend to use the word "stupid" in an insulting form. So for me, a genetic
inability to learn is a cause for sadness. Refusing to learn because the
content of the knowledge "is against tradition" is pretty (f***ing) stupid.

Of course the actual definitions include the concept of "lacking common
sense" which is a pretty ill-defined thing to be missing. And lacking it
seems to be more common than having it. Thus we get to an etymological
dilemma: Why is something so rare as "common sense" referred to as common?
Maybe calling it "common sense" is really a cruel word-play joke on the
terminally stupid (who wouldn't understand they are being laughed at in
this matter anyway).

This could go on for a long time :-)
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at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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