Watchdog that should be taken out and shot

"Tom Lucas" <news@REMOVE_auto_THIS_flame_TO_REPLY.clara.co.uk> wrote in
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> "Peter Dickerson" <first{dot}surname@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> > Wrong information is worse than no information at all. At least in the
> > latter case you know that you don't know.
>
> If we wanted it to be easy we wouldn't have become engineers :-D

Actually I became an engineer because it was easier than understanding
humans. It was also easier and better paid than what I was educated for -
cosmology.

Peter

"Peter Dickerson" <first{dot}surname@tesco.net> wrote in message 
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> "Tom Lucas" <news@REMOVE_auto_THIS_flame_TO_REPLY.clara.co.uk> wrote 
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>> "Peter Dickerson" <first{dot}surname@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> [snip]
>> > Wrong information is worse than no information at all. At least in 
>> > the
>> > latter case you know that you don't know.
>>
>> If we wanted it to be easy we wouldn't have become engineers :-D
>
> Actually I became an engineer because it was easier than understanding
> humans. It was also easier and better paid than what I was educated 
> for -
> cosmology.

Well I think it is safe to assume that no-one got into it for the chicks 
;-)