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20/05/2001 17:38:55
 
 
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20/05/2001 15:56:45
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00507089
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>No offence, but I really think that the things are a little out-of-the-way. Suppose that a drugstore sells suppositories. Do you really think that they should clearly marked whith some instructions as follows:
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>'Do not eat them'
>'Do not stick them in your nose'
>'Do not put them in your ears'
>'This is NOT a lipstick!'
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>And so on - I can figure at least 500 of non-use the suppositories.
>
>But most important: where is the limit? Who establish the limit? Are people so stupid so they can't figure out by themselves?
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>IMHO, I really think that's easy to stick a label with 'Whan Can You Do With This Product' than 'What you can't do with it'. For example: you can't drive a suppository, you can't drink it, you can't use it to write on the girlfriend's mirror: 'I'm leaving you', etc.
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>You simply can do only one thing with it: you can use it as you surely know. So, why bother to write an interminable list of what you can't do?


Tell that to the lawyers in the USA. The country that has hot air blowers to dry your hands in public restrooms, with instructions on how to use them! Of course all your programs should be idiot-proof, but then they invent a better idiot!


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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