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James Robertson

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David Buck, Smalltalker at large
Anger and Superstition Posted: Dec 1, 2007 11:58 AM
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Chris Petrilli is unhappy with the results of a science survey:

How can we possibly be labeled a modern nation when more people believe in all-powerful sky spirits than believe in natural selection, which has been demonstrated literally hundreds of thousands of times to be factual? How can we take seriously people who think that witches, ghosts and other fantasies are real? How can we progress as a nation when we live under a collective delusion of reality that contravenes all available evidence?

Heck, why leave the IT sector if you want something to wonder about? We have a near mono-culture of OS installations, even though everyone knows what kind of security risks that entails. We have a general distrust of dynamic programming languages, even given the general shoddiness of the static languages that are in general use. We have a set of supposedly trained IT people who regularly leave their machines susceptible to attack - the list goes on and on.

You can find laziness - physical and intellectual - nearly anywhere you care to look.

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