From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5PuM-0005C9-CK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:18:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68AB6E081F; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371F0E081F for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so626452rvf.46 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:18:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4e6VT1ScHxvD3O5efwufR9G5LAQnTZmAVeqHRP1peCc=; b=msXy5c6R3cDSEEFASMJaDGRcJzGtozqgx2PK15ESqGlOOxB4dxCoPPINc0r5SbaY6H Pd01KtrBHSuu0WygSKB9gg+yNwzlNjBLHqO8MPL9fxyewRDRr2gNUjcW0eAxUgXUnk7D ZFhuK34/7RWOheAEF9mlaHCn5ExM/aA0NleeA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=k0ObeTmbthI8iY7I9dR2zKDVvtHGTVCbSDOlQgcRX6gdx5bDWRlEWaL5r20F0MToAO dW0U3mkXHIyD0erzRxOiRCdxlJdlB1gjg1e7+B4DVtb1kX8ZTSxNlm/aYwo+pX/Fgi/3 DsP/vs26baXkwgIV9+H44mMZXBeeUKedDy6WM= Received: by 10.141.29.16 with SMTP id g16mr3035432rvj.287.1227727119839; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:18:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.2.228? (dialup-4.231.2.228.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.2.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm982520rvb.5.2008.11.26.11.18.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:18:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <492DA10A.9000007@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:18:34 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081123 SeaMonkey/1.1.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <1227660355.3279.132.camel@bunyip.localdomain> <492CD923.5010709@gmail.com> <200811262050.52973.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811262050.52973.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 61d4cda2-ccce-4a81-b54a-f8781e9518d3 X-Archives-Hash: d2dd32f7f08ead2944a8167021074fc2 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 07:05:39 Dale wrote: > >> I'm not expecting a answer but along the lines of a viewpoint in a >> question form. Why is it that smart, I mean seriously smart, people >> have the worst social skills? They can invent a super fast CPU, memory >> chip, hard drive some new chemical, or some other ingenious thing but >> can't say a kind word if you give them a double dose of Prozac. >> >> Sort of strange huh? >> > > Easy. > > It's not that smart people have zero social skills. Smart people have the same > spread of social skills as average and dumb people. > > Some smart people do not suffer fools gladly and they rise to prominence > whereas others just act like everyone else and you do not especially note > this fact. Smart people who work with machines get to be very good at it, but > machines don't talk back. Some smart folk take to talking to people the way > they talk to machines and this is noteworthy. Again, you do not take note of > the majority that do not do this. > > > I guess we just notice the "bad ones," if you want to call them that. Dale :-) :-)