>
> And now, my obligatory rant about timezones. It's (mostly) a joke.
> If we did away with timezones, this wouldn't be an issue. No time
> changes, no wondering what time it is in another part of the world, and
> greatly reduced jetlag would all be benefits. The weather reports
> already have sunrise and sunset times, so it can't be that hard to add
> in local high noon and midnight times as well. The workday in the
> "Eastern" timezone would go from 12:00 through 20:00. Best of all, we
> wouldn't have the nasty uptick in driving accidents and fatalities every
> Spring when daylight savings time steals an hour.
>
Something I've learned over the years is that in a debate of stupidity
vs. intelligence, stupidity usually wins for quite intelligent reasons.
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Being a Linux list, I think its safe to say that everyone on the list
falls into the right side of the graph or at least in the right half of
the graph. Unfortunately, what happens is that the left side of the
graph is full of complainers and people who don't want to
learn/work/care. But strangely enough they also represent a large amount
of money and a lot of voting power that is mostly controlled by the
person on the TV who can wave a magic wand. So it winds up being a
stupid PR problem. In order to appease the left part of the graph and
keep the money and votes flowing, the right part has to "settle" and
then we get stuck with crap.
Many things have benefited from this property including:
VHS
Microsoft
AOL
Reality TV shows
George W. Bush
Florida
If you want to succeed in this world, you have to be able to leverage
stupidity and try to avoid being part of a two-way decision.
Unfortunately the tech industry is riddled with those.
--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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