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Would the world be a better place?

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Philippine Mango

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Would the world be a better place if people weren't so damn ignorant? I just feel like the typical joe knows little to none about anything but when they do know something it unfortunately makes them very dangerous! I mean I work on a computer for some one who knows very little but not completely jack and then they freak out when I do something because they think it's doing one thing when it's really doing another. I mean people with quite a bit more experience you can at least explain to them what your doing and hopefully they will understand. I just seems like the people who aren't entirely ignorant "whats a keyboard" aren't sooo bad as people who are like "whats the registry" are the worst people you can encounter. I think this holds true with anything (cars, electronics, history etc..) Is it just me?

I'll give a quick story, I was working on my sister's laptop which was acting very slowly and I was telling her it was stupid for her to install SP2 because it was causing more problems then it was solving (program incompatibilities random crashes etc..) So I go into add/remove programs and remove it, well then internet explorer stops working and I try to figure out but to no avail. So I do a system restore and as I'm doing the restore she's like "OMG WTF are you doing, I didn't say you could use system restore I mean you don't just touch some ones computer before asking them to do a system restore and blah blah blah" which was very irritating because as she was bitching I was trying to explain to her that I was restoring the system back to where I had not uninstalled SP2 but she coninuted to bitch and rant. By the time she was tired of bitching, system restore finished and the computer reverted to the less stable but at least functioning system with Internet explorer. She still bitches about it and treats system restore like partitioning a hard drive.

 
I think maybe the world is better off without genocide instead of without a few computer illiterate people. what do you think
 
Some of my family is like that - they go " Oh no - don't touch my computer - you'll kill it. I am fine with my 100+ spyware programs making my computer a total POS" :roll:
 
nah. smart people are generally mean, vindictive, and evil 😉

the world would be a lot better off if we all had IQ's in the ~70 range 😛
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
nah. smart people are generally mean, vindictive, and evil 😉

the world would be a lot better off if we all had IQ's in the ~70 range 😛
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Stop trying to drag us down to your level! 😉
 
ignorant = uneducated

example: I am ignorant when it comes to chemistry.

So, if you think the world would better off with less people who are "ignorant," some people may consider you to be one of those to which you refer.
 
(It would be ironic to ask for cliff notes)

Well, as bad as it sounds, we have to have a level of completely clueless people around. Granted, I was completely clueless about international travel three months ago, but I know my stuff in at least a few categories (Scouting, computing). What bugs me are the people who are clueless and dont have an area that they know what they're doing.
 
You will always have the Bell Curve, you can't do anything about it. As for what your talking about, I think you have more of a communication problem then anything else, you didn't tell your sister what you were going to do and so she didn't understand what was going on when she got mad (besides the fact that you uninstalled SP2 without her permission anyways). I've found that when working on anything communication is the key, explain what you are doing and the person will, A) feel smarter about the subject and therefore trust you more and B) be less likely to cause the problem agian. I see this problem alot in car mechs. they have a tendency to tell you what they think you want to here instead of explaining the accual problem. course that's probably cause they took a few screws out of your car so that you'd be back next week. 😱
 
Your right, I too can become just as bad as them when I comes to something like history. I can sometimes be very persistant about one incident in history and it turns out its actually not so. But yeah I am glad to know there are other people who suffer from this problem as well!
Originally posted by: johnjbruin
Some of my family is like that - they go " Oh no - don't touch my computer - you'll kill it. I am fine with my 100+ spyware programs making my computer a total POS" :roll:
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Hum well I did tell her that installing SP2 was the cause of her issue. I mean what is sooooooo terribly irritating about her despite me fixing her computer every time I visit home is that I have to do the exact same things agian in fixing it and when I explain to her exactally what she needs to do to make sure it doesn't occur agian, she I guess refuses to learn it. I even try to make sure that she understands it (repeat it back to me) but is all useless. What makes it so much worse is that her friends' older brother knows quite a bit about computers but is slightly out of date and isn't looking out for her best interest so every time she goes to his house, asks some questions and then comes back she says/repeats what ever he said and trys to stick with it. Then I have to explain for 2 hours WHY its not a good idea what he said and how my alternative is much better. Like for example with the XEON boards:

Here is the board I recommended her: http://www.gamepc.com/labs/vie...p?id=ncchdl&page=1

Here is the board her friends' brother recommended her: http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=13-151-139&depa=0

Now they are both good boards but you got to admit the one I choose is much better and more suited to her needs. I mean she would have to buy a whole new video card after we just purchased an AGP one. (AIW R9600XT). Not the best in the world but was a very big hassel to get..
 
It seems like that would be a no, because that ignorance just shifted a little. While mommy and daddy know how to drive a car and use a microwave they don't know how to run a farm anymore/kill a cow or hunt. I don't think were more so less ignorant, it simply shifted. Yes our kiddies go to school but how much of that knowledge are they really going to keep?
 
While your basic assertion is true, I'd have to say that you were fool to try to uninstall SP2

1) Your claim that SP2 causes incompatibilities is erroious, I've never known anyone who has had SP2 cause an incompatibility. I'm sure your sister isn't going to use one of the few exotic apps that does.
2) SP2 is more secure, sure, you can protect yourself, but you can't always protect your sister from bad browsing habits.
3) You should know that attempting to uninstall a service pack is like trying to pull teeth.

Summary: You should lump yourself into the group that you want to wipe off the face of the earth.
 
True, I know that there "are" benifits to installing SP2 I still believe that the problems out weigh the security fixes. Her browsing habits are so horrible anyways that no service pack will fix it. Also BTW she gets most of her problems with kazaa since she doesn't know what to download. She has learned not to go to shifty websites as much per say but no service pack will prevent her from downloading "Hack a that pr!ck 2.0". She has norton installed and I know that it will most definately not find all the viruses out there (previous experience) I feel confident that if she does encounter a virus, it won't be serious enough to totally destroy her machine. And even if it does I don't really care anyways because it's her laptop and I'm trying to get her to stop putting ALL OF HER STUFF on there, its just too risky. So if something does go bad and it's her fault, maybe she will learn a lesson or two about cautious downloading.

The only way the mouse will learn not to touch the electric fence is just to get shocked by it, you can go ahead and try to tell the mouse that it will get electricuted but nothing like personal experience will ever scare it from doing it.
 
Originally posted by: So
While your basic assertion is true, I'd have to say that you were fool to try to uninstall SP2

1) Your claim that SP2 causes incompatibilities is erroious, I've never known anyone who has had SP2 cause an incompatibility. I'm sure your sister isn't going to use one of the few exotic apps that does.
2) SP2 is more secure, sure, you can protect yourself, but you can't always protect your sister from bad browsing habits.
3) You should know that attempting to uninstall a service pack is like trying to pull teeth.

Summary: You should lump yourself into the group that you want to wipe off the face of the earth.
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I installed SP2 on my roommate's computer and his internet stopped working, i uninstalled it and it worked again.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
i side with your sister on this.
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But I was TRYING to revert it BACK to before I tried to uninstall the service pack (service pack uninstalls create a restore point) so its stupid for her to overreact. I'm more cautious with her data then SHE even is...
 
The world would be a better place if people thought about the bigger scheme of things, why things happen, what's going on, instead of being sensory response machines. ie, listen to what mainstream media feeds them and nothing else, never doubting anything.

So yeah I guess the basic assertion is true.

After reading the situation... I agree that your sister should have tried to understand what you were doing. But people are going to prioritize different parts of their lives... so some things you just have to accept.
 
Originally posted by: fanerman91
The world would be a better place if people thought about the bigger scheme of things, why things happen, what's going on, instead of being sensory response machines. ie, listen to what mainstream media feeds them and nothing else, never doubting anything.

So yeah I guess the basic assertion is true. Your situation with the sister I don't know. I didn't bother reading the damn story.
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amen :thumbsup:
 
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