I wonder how many read Cringely.. besides the ones knowledgeable enough to have written much the same (if perhaps, not quite so legibly) ?

It surely seems that.. Billy n'Bally have become so predictable - so mechanical, one might say and I do - that almost every utterance is foremost: laughable, then boring and then aggravating as sand in the gears of yer new Beemer.

BUT (am I right on this?) ONLY for those at least interested on a few technical levels and knowledgeable on several levels (of complexity).

The problem of the persistence of this swamp-gas filled autistic brat and his serfs - appears to be based (by now) solely upon the general and near-complete ignorance of:

All those folks who use his stuff, yet have never bothered to learn even enough elementary stuff so as to comprehend just a bit - of what Cringe is saying (and he writes rather clearly IMhO). And like Pavlovian dogs - they fall for each iteration of exactly the kind of spin that THEY attempt to incorporate into their own Corp advertising! No?

How Can This Be? I mean - being a bizness droid does not automatically require that one check all life experience at the door. Does it? I've tried but - I just do not Get It: that a so-called CTO DOES NOT Get It, over and over..

{sigh}

I had the same wonderment years ago. I think I've learned more since then. How is it that - so many have Not learned more, or even appear to be determined not ever to? I give them an average IQ of 100, like the book says. So how is it that so many are running at 75?



never mind,

Ashton
Sentient animals do not behave in this way.
I've got to be missing something Big.. over and over and

Randy makes sense there. The wonder of 'logic' is that, like the algebra - you can solve problems symbolically, of a complexity such that you couldn't hold all the concepts in clear memory: while solving the er equation.

(This I believe is also the idiocy, fallacy of the so-called Corporate Mission Statement which purports to set out in nice linear thought.. that which is never so straightforward in the dynamics of actual life. It's pure MBA make-work masturbation IMnsHO.)

What every (good) scam artist knows, that MENSA and its numbers is irrelevant to - is that the appearance of a logical flow (?) is indeed bait for such as yearn for this simplicity in all things. Now having a high IQ == liking nice structured problem solving doesn't Guarantee this insouciance about people, motives and scams .. but it's a damn good indicator IMhO.

Still and all - the machinations of Billy n'Bally are near-transparent and not even all that clever. One needs Some life experience to see this at a glance but.. c'mon: these CIEIOs are purportedly bizness savvy and.. surely acquainted with the greed and larceny inside themselves. They are 'sposed to be STUDYING their corp needs, wants and alternatives. They don't have to get it at a glance: they've had YEARS!

And still the same old same old Works. *THIS* is what I just don't get! I mean - *really* - has National Dumbth actually reached the level that, M/Sloth's every aim and utterance about the (supposed but not Real.. next aim) is HARD to understand?

(If it's that bad - how do these people dress themselves?)




{sigh} The Minutemen died for *THIS* ?