Re: More on identifiers
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:57:56 -0300
Message-ID: <4a294e1a$0$23780$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
>
> That's right. Iliteracy is a big problem in many other fields too and
> is spreading to levels that were unheard of several generations ago. The
> British Prime Minister has suggested a commisioner be established to
> clear MPs' expenses, it seems he thinks his expense scandal is a
> technical proglem but it's clear he is no good at reading, ie., seeing,
> the actual requirement to be satisfied, in this case both the written
> rules and the readers are faulty. Technocrats usually don't see through
> the phony requirements that should be ignored, which is one reason why
> most shouldn't be allowed to assess user db requirements, let alone
> become PM. .
>
> At a public session, one member of Vancouver city council (all of whom
> had presented "accomplished" resumes at election time) obstructed a vote
> on a staff report, she made the whole council debate whether 'refer'
> means 'defer'. After an hour it was clear to viewers that several other
> councillors had also suffered from inferior primary educations.
>
> The db world is not alone. In some larger countries, it has become
> almost a truism that a majority of cabinet officiers will be effectively
> illiterate as well as much of the bureaucracy.
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:57:56 -0300
Message-ID: <4a294e1a$0$23780$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
paul c wrote:
> Roy Hann wrote:
> ...
>
>> You do not have to design a database that does magic. If the users >> can't formulate sensible assertions to put in the database that is their >> problem. If they've found a way to make sensible assertions, do what >> they do. >> This is not a database problem. >> ...
>
> That's right. Iliteracy is a big problem in many other fields too and
> is spreading to levels that were unheard of several generations ago. The
> British Prime Minister has suggested a commisioner be established to
> clear MPs' expenses, it seems he thinks his expense scandal is a
> technical proglem but it's clear he is no good at reading, ie., seeing,
> the actual requirement to be satisfied, in this case both the written
> rules and the readers are faulty. Technocrats usually don't see through
> the phony requirements that should be ignored, which is one reason why
> most shouldn't be allowed to assess user db requirements, let alone
> become PM. .
>
> At a public session, one member of Vancouver city council (all of whom
> had presented "accomplished" resumes at election time) obstructed a vote
> on a staff report, she made the whole council debate whether 'refer'
> means 'defer'. After an hour it was clear to viewers that several other
> councillors had also suffered from inferior primary educations.
>
> The db world is not alone. In some larger countries, it has become
> almost a truism that a majority of cabinet officiers will be effectively
> illiterate as well as much of the bureaucracy.
Heck, Bill Clinton is a Rhodes fucking Scholar and is unsure what "is" means. Received on Fri Jun 05 2009 - 18:57:56 CEST