Comments on: Why good computer guys get grumpy sometimes http://helpmerick.com/why-good-computer-guys-get-grumpy-sometimes.htm Easy to understand computer help Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/why-good-computer-guys-get-grumpy-sometimes.htm/comment-page-#comment-3245 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2050#comment-3245 Youse guys sound like COMPUTER THEORISTS.... Youse guys sound like COMPUTER THEORISTS….

]]> By: Rick http://helpmerick.com/why-good-computer-guys-get-grumpy-sometimes.htm/comment-page-#comment-3246 Rick Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2050#comment-3246 that we want to share technical knowledge with the world and have them learn so they can save time and money, then YES, we are computer theorists. Too often, computers become time and money pits for their owners, and that's exactly the opposite of their intention. that we want to share technical knowledge with the world and have them learn so they can save time and money, then YES, we are computer theorists. Too often, computers become time and money pits for their owners, and that’s exactly the opposite of their intention.

]]> By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/why-good-computer-guys-get-grumpy-sometimes.htm/comment-page-#comment-3247 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2050#comment-3247 Excellent blog in general, but I felt compelled to comment on your sentence, "A good on-call computer guy is worth more than a good a good doctor, mechanic or plumber...." I take issue with the context in which you used the word "worth". "Worth" = "value" = individual subjective notion. "Worth" and "value" are in the eye of the beholder, in the context of willing buyers and willing sellers functioning in a coercion-free marketplace (aka "free market"). Most doctors I know would say that good doctors are "worth" more than good computer guys, which is why I am not all that impressed by the opinions of either group, especially if they happen to manifest a general ignorance in the subjects of economics, politics, and law. See the writings of such as Ayn Rand and Ralph Borsodi, Von Mises, Bastiat, Hayek, Rothbard, and Sowell, to name but a few important thinkers. Actually, my computer guys are great, so I have no complaints in that department. My primary care doc is a nice guy, too, but is a bit brainwashed by a pro-elitist system, which uses the power of government to give the medical profession a "legal" monopoly on pain control and access to medical supplies. To level the playing field, what is needed is an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving the individual the absolute right to "doctor" himself. Nobody is asking for the right to "doctor" 3rd parties without the proper training. But it is a simple fact of life that 1) by their own statistics the medical profession manages to kill or injure some 15 million people per year without getting so much as an OSHA ticket, 2) there is nowhere near as much money in preventing disease as in doing surgeries and treating chronic diseases, 3) 95% of what doctors do in their offices could be successfully done by the individual "doctoring" himself, and 4) if people ever learn how to live in peace and good health, lawyers and doctors would have to find some other way to make a living. To the extent that your blog was intended to encourage a bit more understanding and courtesy from your customers, I suspect (and hope) it served its purpose well. To the extent the blog's tone might be interpreted by some to contain a bit of uncharacteristic whining, I would suggest that computer guys count their blessings that they are not burger flippers or big-box store greeters. At least nobody asks them questions on a convention floor! The free market is what it is, and will be what it will be. At least, at this point in time, computer consumers are free to buy books and parts and try to fix their own computers ? unlike medical care consumers. Meanwhile, please be a little more careful before tossing around such subjective words as "worth" (and/or "value") so carelessly. It's all too easy to sound a little arrogant when you don't mean to. Maybe we should let the doctors be the judge of that! Excellent blog in general, but I felt compelled to comment on your sentence, “A good on-call computer guy is worth more than a good a good doctor, mechanic or plumber….”
I take issue with the context in which you used the word “worth”. “Worth” = “value” = individual subjective notion. “Worth” and “value” are in the eye of the beholder, in the context of willing buyers and willing sellers functioning in a coercion-free marketplace (aka “free market”).
Most doctors I know would say that good doctors are “worth” more than good computer guys, which is why I am not all that impressed by the opinions of either group, especially if they happen to manifest a general ignorance in the subjects of economics, politics, and law. See the writings of such as Ayn Rand and Ralph Borsodi, Von Mises, Bastiat, Hayek, Rothbard, and Sowell, to name but a few important thinkers.
Actually, my computer guys are great, so I have no complaints in that department.
My primary care doc is a nice guy, too, but is a bit brainwashed by a pro-elitist system, which uses the power of government to give the medical profession a “legal” monopoly on pain control and access to medical supplies.
To level the playing field, what is needed is an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving the individual the absolute right to “doctor” himself. Nobody is asking for the right to “doctor” 3rd parties without the proper training.
But it is a simple fact of life that 1) by their own statistics the medical profession manages to kill or injure some 15 million people per year without getting so much as an OSHA ticket, 2) there is nowhere near as much money in preventing disease as in doing surgeries and treating chronic diseases, 3) 95% of what doctors do in their offices could be successfully done by the individual “doctoring” himself, and 4) if people ever learn how to live in peace and good health, lawyers and doctors would have to find some other way to make a living.
To the extent that your blog was intended to encourage a bit more understanding and courtesy from your customers, I suspect (and hope) it served its purpose well.
To the extent the blog’s tone might be interpreted by some to contain a bit of uncharacteristic whining, I would suggest that computer guys count their blessings that they are not burger flippers or big-box store greeters. At least nobody asks them questions on a convention floor!
The free market is what it is, and will be what it will be. At least, at this point in time, computer consumers are free to buy books and parts and try to fix their own computers ? unlike medical care consumers.
Meanwhile, please be a little more careful before tossing around such subjective words as “worth” (and/or “value”) so carelessly. It’s all too easy to sound a little arrogant when you don’t mean to. Maybe we should let the doctors be the judge of that!

]]> By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/why-good-computer-guys-get-grumpy-sometimes.htm/comment-page-#comment-3248 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2050#comment-3248 I appreciate my computer guys PRECISELY because they work their butts off on their website (helpmerick.com) to help educate computer users to where they become self-sufficient. They actually want me to become computer savvy, and I really appreciate that! Unlike the doctors, mentioned in a previous post, my computer guys aren't trying to manipulate the powers of government to give them "legal" monopolies on the storage and retrieval of information so as to inflate the "value" of their labor in the free market. Remember humans' most basic Producer-Consumer conflict: every last one of us wants to get paid as much as possible for his own time, labor and produce, while simultaneously paying as little as possible for the "other guy's" time, labor and produce. It's quite impossible for the powers of government to solve that conflict. ONLY a free marketplace comprised of willing sellers and willing buyers in an atmosphere 100% devoid of coercion can do the job. Now, if only we can persuade the shamanistic legal and medical profession cultures to voluntarily give up their "legal" monopolies on justice and pain relief! Here's another idea: maybe we could print up some "Give Your Computer Guy a Hug!" T-shirts! (Or maybe make a donation on his website ? just to show him somebody cares!) I appreciate my computer guys PRECISELY because they work their butts off on their website (helpmerick.com) to help educate computer users to where they become self-sufficient. They actually want me to become computer savvy, and I really appreciate that!
Unlike the doctors, mentioned in a previous post, my computer guys aren’t trying to manipulate the powers of government to give them “legal” monopolies on the storage and retrieval of information so as to inflate the “value” of their labor in the free market.
Remember humans’ most basic Producer-Consumer conflict: every last one of us wants to get paid as much as possible for his own time, labor and produce, while simultaneously paying as little as possible for the “other guy’s” time, labor and produce.
It’s quite impossible for the powers of government to solve that conflict. ONLY a free marketplace comprised of willing sellers and willing buyers in an atmosphere 100% devoid of coercion can do the job.
Now, if only we can persuade the shamanistic legal and medical profession cultures to voluntarily give up their “legal” monopolies on justice and pain relief!
Here’s another idea: maybe we could print up some “Give Your Computer Guy a Hug!” T-shirts! (Or maybe make a donation on his website ? just to show him somebody cares!)

]]> By: Anonymous http://helpmerick.com/why-good-computer-guys-get-grumpy-sometimes.htm/comment-page-#comment-3249 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=2050#comment-3249 I heard Rick and Adam praising disc cleanup over two years ago on the GCN network, where I streamed their terrestrial show and it has saved me at least three thousand dollars personally and many thousands more for my friends and business associates. So simple....and I never thought of it before keep on conspiring new shows and posts Dr Rick and Mac Man Adam I heard Rick and Adam praising disc cleanup over two years ago on the GCN network, where I streamed their terrestrial show and it has saved me at least three thousand dollars personally and many thousands more for my friends and business associates.

So simple….and I never thought of it before

keep on conspiring new shows and posts

Dr Rick and Mac Man Adam

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