Re: EW (to me) DENTAL ANESTHESIA,..Hippocrates .Mike

[Guest guest]

And you're right about school too. Because of calculators, my kids

can't do math. And because of computers & spell check, they can't

spell. Well, it's not that bad, but it's getting worse for people

with younger kids.

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On that note, have you ever wondered why they came up with the

scanning registers at stores - just run the item's bar code past the

scanner?

Most people think it is for inventory management. Don't get me

wrong, it is used for that and does a superb job of it. But that is

NOT why it was originally developed.

It was developed because most large stores pay the absolute minimum

wage (and less if they could get away with it) and they were having

far too much trouble with the hired help not being able to figure

out how to make the correct change. When you factor in the extremely

small margins (especially at grocery stores), the error rates were

killing their profits.

I know this is the situation because it was one of the case studies

when I got my first MBA.

[Guest guest]

Oh, don't get me started again on the schools!

Do no harm

No kid left behind

yea, right.

Funny though, how the Hippocratic oath is hypocritical.

And, how cynical I have become.