Thought for the day

[unixronin]

There are a lot of very sharp, bright people out there.

Unfortunate corollary¹:  There are a lot of depressingly stupid people out there.

[1]  Thanks to the law of averages.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

But I find the response that all foolproofing is unworthy a goal as almost knee-jerk and thus wrong.

Ah, see, now I never said one shouldn't make reasonable efforts to make things foolproof. Just that when you make all reasonable efforts to make something foolproof, and someone still manages to screw up through some truly impressive feat of total boneheadedness, the correct response is not for a crowd of lawyers to run up and offer to sue people, but for everyone to ask "Well, what'd you go and do a damn fool thing like that for?" And yeah, when you have a regulation that specifies how something is supposed to be done to such a degree of detail that it becomes impossible to actually comply with the regulation in question, then it's time to scrap the regulation, do it over, and fire the nitpicking idiot who drafted it.