OT: Stupidity of the day

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>On 2/11/2011 1:52 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>[...]
>> The VPN was down so no one in any of the facilities or offices had access to
>> email.  However, the IT department felt they should notify every one of the
>> outage.  How do you do this, by email of course.
>
>I've heard stories going the other way.  The IT department receives an email 
>along the lines of "my e-mail isn't working".  The apocryphal reply is "yes 
>it is".

Then there was the call I got from the support person at one of
our ISP customers.  It seems that one of their customers asked
her to help with his e-mail problem, which of course required
that Carol look at the contents of his e-mail that were on the
ISP's server.  Carol's question to me was what to do about the
Kiddy porn that she found there.  I told her that it seemed to me
that she had to notify the cops which she did resulting in a lost
customer for the ISP as he didn't have service from his jail cell.

>> Gripe number 2:
>>
>> Exiting off the interstate, the car in front of me exits and then half way
>> down the ramp turns on the directional signal.  At the bottom of the ramp,
>> the car crosses 3 lanes without signaling. How much effort does it take to
>> press that little lever down?
>
>Worse, in some ways, are the people sitting at a red light, without a 
>blinker on.  Then, when the light turns green, they pull halfway into the 
>intersection, stop, and _then_ turn on the (left turn, of course) signal. 
>So now you're stuck behind them until they can make the left turn.  Had they 
>simply turned on the blinker a few seconds earlier (or, FSM-forbid, before 
>they stopped for the light in the first place), then you could have planed 
>for this, and gone around them.

I'll second that.  It's too late to signal after one has started
to turn.  On the other hand, the left lane is generally for
passing and turns so I'm usually in the right lane.

Bill
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