full-disclosure - Sick of stupid analogies

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From: dentonj at gmail.com (Jeffrey Denton)
Subject: Sick of stupid analogies

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:44:41 -0700, Stryc9 _ <stryc9@...il.com> wrote:
> What is with the current state of debate in the Information Technology
> sector? Why does every post seem to follow the very illogical and
> seemingly uneducated format of:
> 
> 1.) point
> 2.) bad, stupid analogy
> 3.) ???
> 4.) I am right!!
> 
> Stop using farking analogies!! You aren't talking to your IT director
> or Project Manager here... we all understand the issues and the
> technology surrounding them.
> 

You need to go back to Psychology 101.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578303/Memory_(psychology).html

>From page 2:

"A more effective way to remember information is through effortful or
elaborative processing, which involves thinking about information in a
meaningful way and associating it with existing information in
long-term memory."

Read the above link and use the information to help improve your
social engineering skills.  Then take the time you waste complaining
about someone's post and read into it.

Here's an easy question to answer, what is Glenn Everhart's background?  

> All further communications containing analogies will be moderated -5 Retarted.
> 

You're not evil enough.