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The campaign could not manage launching a web app and they wanted to run the entire USA !?!?!?!

by lifeguard 14y ago

atomical 14y ago
Yes, people who make mistakes can still run the entire USA. It has been done before.
- lifeguard 14y ago
  This kind of false equivocation is dishonest and intellectually lazy.
  - Xcelerate 14y ago
    I disagree. His point is very valid.
    - lifeguard 14y ago
      His use of "mistakes" is a verbal fallacy called equivocation. Not all mistakes are the same. wikipedia: Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as both a formal and informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense
- Jare 14y ago
  This "mistake" is what most people would call 'utter incompetence'.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    "Utter incompetence" is composed of more than one mistake.
    - danso 14y ago
      Well, one could argue that there were a few other mistakes, some quite public, that Romney made leading to the election.
      - rhizome 14y ago
        Sure, but the poster said "this" mistake.
brudgers 14y ago
Heck, I remember a Republican candidate who was amazed by the scanner at the supermarket checkout.
- emmelaich 14y ago
  You remember a report. Or a report of a report. The reporter wasn't even there. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp
  - genwin 14y ago
    If you're the prez and express a significant reaction to common scanner technology that's 12 years old, that's news, whether it's "amazed" or "curious".
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  Aren't you amazed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout? Omnidirectional laser scanners are a thing of beauty. (Yes I'm serious).
omd 14y ago
I don't know about you but there were days when I was trying to get a web app to support IE6 that I was envious of how easy the president has it.
smsm42 14y ago
They already do. Federal government regularly fails spectacularly and it regularly costs us taxpayers billions. And so do local, state, municipal, etc. governments. Presenting it as if this is some unheard of failure that disqualifies everybody involved including the candidate is silly. A lot of successful websites failed, many multiple times and for prolonged period, despite employing top talent and spending millions on them. Failure is always an option.

The campaign could not manage launching a web app and they wanted to run the entire USA !?!?!?!

atomical 14y ago

Yes, people who make mistakes can still run the entire USA. It has been done before.

lifeguard 14y ago
This kind of false equivocation is dishonest and intellectually lazy.
- Xcelerate 14y ago
  I disagree. His point is very valid.
  - lifeguard 14y ago
    His use of "mistakes" is a verbal fallacy called equivocation. Not all mistakes are the same. wikipedia: Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as both a formal and informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense
Jare 14y ago
This "mistake" is what most people would call 'utter incompetence'.
- rhizome 14y ago
  "Utter incompetence" is composed of more than one mistake.
  - danso 14y ago
    Well, one could argue that there were a few other mistakes, some quite public, that Romney made leading to the election.
    - rhizome 14y ago
      Sure, but the poster said "this" mistake.

brudgers 14y ago

Heck, I remember a Republican candidate who was amazed by the scanner at the supermarket checkout.

emmelaich 14y ago
You remember a report. Or a report of a report. The reporter wasn't even there. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp
- genwin 14y ago
  If you're the prez and express a significant reaction to common scanner technology that's 12 years old, that's news, whether it's "amazed" or "curious".
pbhjpbhj 14y ago
Aren't you amazed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout? Omnidirectional laser scanners are a thing of beauty. (Yes I'm serious).

omd 14y ago

I don't know about you but there were days when I was trying to get a web app to support IE6 that I was envious of how easy the president has it.

smsm42 14y ago

They already do. Federal government regularly fails spectacularly and it regularly costs us taxpayers billions. And so do local, state, municipal, etc. governments. Presenting it as if this is some unheard of failure that disqualifies everybody involved including the candidate is silly. A lot of successful websites failed, many multiple times and for prolonged period, despite employing top talent and spending millions on them. Failure is always an option.