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In article <4m39ii$je8@newsgate.sps.mot.com>,
Gordon Gunn  <ggunn@aton.sps.mot.com> wrote:
>In article <DqFqLz.MAJ@txnews.amd.com> Rick Shank,
>ricks@dvorak.amd.com writes:
>
>>I doubt exact numbers are critical to the argument.  The message I was trying
>>to convey is that the numbers are small but not insignificant.
>
>Like I said, out of thin air.
>

Duh!


>>Either get a better dictionary or learn what etymology means.
>
>Duhhh, thet there's the study of bugs, aint it?
>

Duh!  Get your dictionary out again sonny.  The study of bugs is entomology.
Etymology is the branch of lynguistics which deals with the origin and
development of words.  If you get a big boys dictionary (which includes 
etymology), you will find out that you are completely missing the boat.
Regardless, I explained myself in excruciating detail so there would be no
misunderstanding and you now pick nits (and you aren't even any good at it.)
 

><sigh>  OK, here goes.  From the Second College Edition of the
>American Heritage Dictionary, (published in *Boston*,  BTW),
>Ignorance:  1. Without education or knowledge 2. Exhibiting
>lack of education or knowledge 3. Unaware or uninformed.  
>
>See?  Nothing about attitude.
>

Mine says:  "L. ignorare, see ignore." also (and that's just a cheap 
dictionary).


>>It's worse than you think.  The fundamental design is unsafe and inefficient.
>
>I agree.  It's not "worse than I think".
>
>>As you improve your reading skills you will realize what I have said
>>does not necessarily contradict what you have just said.
>
>There is nothing wrong with my reading skills.  Condescending,
>aren't we?
>

Hey, what goes around, ....



>
>So Austin is a high-risk area for auto insurance.  So what?  So
>are a lot of other places.  It proves nothing; it just gives
>them the excuse to jack up our rates.  As to your initial point
>of how a growth environment attracts mental defectives, and
>that it's the reason for Austin's "ignorant drivers" (Yes, I'm
>paraphrasing.  You do know what... Oh, never mind.), well, it's
>hogwash, pure and simple.
>

Based on your anecdotal evidence?  It was strictly my opinion.  I
was hypothesizing in response to the question about how anyplace 
could attract a high percentage of poor drivers.  It was never intended
to be a case study.


>
>Look, Rick, I didn't pick this subject just to get in a
>flamewar with you.  I just happen to disagree with the notion
>that there's something unique to the people who drive in Austin
>that somehow makes them "worse" or "more ignorant" than those
>anywhere else, or even worse than some statistical norm.  What
>metric are you using?  How much they annoy you personally? 
>That's what it seems to me.  It seems ludicrous to me that you
>can claim to be able to make judgements on someone's mental
>capacity by observing their driving habits for a short time
>from another vehicle.
>

This is why I chose the word ignorant.  It is more a statement
of their attitude than their 'mental capacity'.  If I wished to 
make a statement regarding their 'mental capacity', I would have
called them stupid.  You CAN make accurate judgements on people's
ignorance by watching their behavior.


>There are jerks (etcetera) on the road everywhere, not just
>here.  

Again, I NEVER said any different.  I just opined that there is
an excess of ignorant people driving the local streets.



>Personally, I'd *much* rather drive here than in
>Houston, but that's just *my* opinon.  And lighten up, willya?
>

That goes both ways.  I sometimes get a little huffy when people get a
little snitty with me.


Rick

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