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On 10/17/2014 11:29, Rahul Sundaram wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Tom Rivers <span
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I didn't call them stupid - in fact I suggested just the
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<div>I did. You said "My point is that users aren't too
stupid to understand bandwidth/processor
considerations". I am just saying even if one doesn't
understand these considerations, they aren't stupid.<br>
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If you deconstruct the sentence you quoted above, it boils down to
the subject "users" and the predicate "aren't". Therefore I said
quite specifically that users ARE NOT "too stupid to understand
bandwidth/processor considerations." The inverse of that statement
is the users ARE "smart enough to understand bandwidth/processor
considerations."
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More to the point, I went on to bolster the notion that Linux users
are capable of understanding what's at play by saying this: "These
are Linux users after all." That sentence is meant to infer that
using Linux requires a decent amount of skill, something that again
goes against the notion that I have somehow called them stupid.
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Overall, the entire point of me advocating that users should be
asked whether they want to endure large amounts of
bandwidth/processor usage during system updates is predicated on the
notion that they CAN answer the question intelligently. It would
make absolutely no sense to posit querying users if they couldn't
respond intelligently.
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Please don't persist in asserting I'm saying people are stupid. It
quite simply is not the case.<br>
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Tom<br>
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