[bug #66382] [bjarnigroff] tmac/groff.7.man: explanation of the request 'pso' is not clear

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #66382 (group groff):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Summary: tmac/groff.7.man: explanation of the request 'pso'
is not clear => [bjarnigroff] tmac/groff.7.man: explanation of the request
'pso' is not clear

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Follow-up Comment #2:

This appears to be one of Bjarni's deviationist chickens coming home to roost,
so I'm resolving the ticket as "Invalid" and, applying the well-known
principle of "turnabout is fair play", offer him some quotes to ponder.


Summary:  This case shows how easy it is to influence, manipulate,
deceive, fool, spellbind, and brain-wash people, who have already been
brain-washed, under a spell, fooled, deceived or manipulated.


...which seems ripe for a riposte courtesy of Richard Feynman:

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the
easiest to fool."


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        It is necessary to consider all consequences of
        the proposed action in all states of nature.

There are lots of consequences of any given action.  Many of the
problems of society today are at least partly due to the failure
to realize that the "obvious" action taken had so many bad side
effects.

Herman Rubin in the Usenet forum "misc.education.science".

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"You must unlearn what you have learned".  Yoda in "Star Wars.  The
Empire Strikes back".

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The only known cure for ignorance is education

E. C. McKenzie "14,000 Quips & Quotes for Writers & Speakers".
Greenwich House, New York.  1984.

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At the rate we're going, the day may come when everybody has a college
degree and nobody has an education.

E. C. McKenzie "14,000 Quips & Quotes for Writers & Speakers".
Greenwich House, New York.  1984.

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Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the memory.

E. C. McKenzie "14,000 Quips & Quotes for Writers & Speakers".
Greenwich House, New York.  1984.

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The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Ben Hutchings, for example in the Usenet forum
"linux.debian.devel.release", Saturday, 9th November 2019

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and
making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually
die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck, "A Scientific Autobiography", 1949.

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"This second radical novelty shares the usual fate of all
radical novelties: it is denied, because its truth would be
too discomforting.
I have no idea what this specific denial and disbelief costs
the United States, but a million dollars a day seems a modest
guess."

Page xxix in

The Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science

Edsger W. Dijkstra (Dykstra)

SIGCSE Bulletin 1989, 21(1), pp. xxv-xxxix.
Also "www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/"

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  "Since breaking out of bad habits, rather than acquiring new
ones, is the toughest part of learning we must expect from that
system permanent mental damage for most students exposed to
it."

Page xxxvii in:

On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science

Edsger W. Dijkstra (Dykstra)

SIGCSE Bulletin 1989, 21(1), pp. xxv-xxxix.
Also "www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/"

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  "The problems of the real world are primarily those you are
left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions."

Page xxxviii in:

On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science

Edsger W. Dijkstra (Dykstra)

SIGCSE Bulletin 1989, 21(1), pp. xxv-xxxix.
Also "www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/"

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The problem with today's students is that they are so
used to spoon-feeding that they cannot learn anything
else even with assistance.  Furthermore, most textbooks
now are quite bad, concealing everything but routine.

Herman Rubin on the Usenet forum "misc.education".

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  Seen recently:

Education enables us, to think critically and to question things
(ideas), even when it is inconvenient.


https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-05/msg00018.html


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