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The Title Says It All

In "Don't Pretend to Have a Question Just So You Can Talk About Yourself," Allison Green of Ask a Manager advises against a practice that used to annoy the bejesus out of me. She starts off speaking about job interviews, but expands to life in general:
A similar version of this is true of questions that people ask not because they really care about the answer, but because they think the act of asking the question will look good. That's not what this time is for, and it's often pretty obvious when someone is doing it (because they tend not to appear to be thinking critically about the answer, just running down a list).
The realization that this tactic was obvious made the practice less annoying to me, although, as Green rightly points out, there is still the matter of wasted time.

Weekend Reading

"In other words, although lower taxes stimulate investment and production, the more important value -- i.e., the redistribution function of a global welfare state -- requires a willingness by producers to pay higher taxes." -- Peter Schwartz, in "Fact-Checking The Fact-Checkers" at The Huffington Post

"Lying undermines your relationship with your employer and it imposes burdens on you." -- Michael Hurd, in "Lying Can Be a Full-Time Job" at The Delaware Wave

"If you want to reduce stress, think about how to modify your attitudes and beliefs." -- Michael Hurd, in "Doing Less Does Not Always Mean Less Stress" at The Delaware Coast Press

"I'd much rather [Clinton's] opponents focus their energies against her public policy positions." -- Paul Hsieh, in "No, There's No 'Smoking Gun' in Clinton's Doctor Letter" at Forbes

"Our enemy is defined, not primarily by their use of terrorist means, but by their ideological ends." -- Elan Journo, in "15 Years After 9/11, We Still Don't Understand the Enemy" at The Federalist

My Two Cents

In addition to health-based attacks on Hillary Clinton distracting from substantive issues and making the GOP less creditable, I have noticed they are causing Democrats to speculate about replacing her with Bernie Sanders. Somehow, I don't see Sanders saying, "I'm tired of hearing about all the damned hacking." I really don't want this to turn into a contest between two of the few people who could make me consider voting for Mrs. Clinton.

Is the Medicine Also This Advanced Down Under?

My interest in open-source software has led me to the following interesting nugget aboutan Australian medical agency:
There may not be as many of these people in 2016, but they're still there! We don't know if these are FreeDOS or some other DOS, but there's the car company that uses an old Compaq laptop running DOS software to service luxury McLaren F1 cars and the South Australian Government is still running their electronic health records on a DOS-based system. Probably my favorite example is author George R.R. Martin (author of the 'Game of Thrones' series) writes all his books and manuscripts on a DOS computer, running the WordStar word processor. [bold added]
That said, FreeDOS is something to look into for middle-aged folks feeling nostalgic about the computer games they used to play -- and somehow still in possession of the requisite stack of floppies.

-- CAV

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