fire_diver
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Please stop doing this.
Don't feed the trolls.
Don't feed the trolls.
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Please stop doing this.
Don't feed the trolls.
In common usage, ignorant means "ignorant." Only people ignorant of the meaning of ignorant understand ignorant to mean "stupid."
If you are reading an educated man's writing where he correctly uses the term ignorant and interpreting it to mean "stupid," then you're either an idiot yourself or you're deliberately misinterpreting the statement.
JJ is mistaken. It isn't standardization that is "frequently misunderstood" - it is the arrogance and the implication in the DIR term itself. Defining a standardized set of equipment and procedures as "Doing it Right" implies that anything else is "Doing it Wrong" or, at the very least "Not Doing it Right."What's the problem with this statement? Jarrod is saying that people misunderstand the DIR emphasis on standardization as being a criticism of other practices, which it is not . . . I think it's a very true statement, and doesn't reflect poorly on the author at all.
JJ is mistaken. It isn't standardization that is "frequently misunderstood" - it is the arrogance and the implication in the DIR term itself. Defining a standardized set of equipment and procedures as "Doing it Right" implies that anything else is "Doing it Wrong" or, at the very least "Not Doing it Right."
This irritates and aggravates many of us.
I proposed changing the name to the much less confrontational "Doing it Rite" a la "Dive Rite" as a "Rite" is a far more accurate term for any set of standardized equipment and procedures, but that's fallen on deaf ears. Clinging to the acronym in the face of the many and varied objections may be viewed as the "right" thing to do among its devotees, but I'll just stick with my floaty yellow hose and tow strap harness
Rick
JJ is mistaken. It isn't standardization that is "frequently misunderstood" - it is the arrogance and the implication in the DIR term itself. Defining a standardized set of equipment and procedures as "Doing it Right" implies that anything else is "Doing it Wrong" or, at the very least "Not Doing it Right."
This irritates and aggravates many of us.
JJ is mistaken. It isn't standardization that is "frequently misunderstood" - it is the arrogance and the implication in the DIR term itself. Defining a standardized set of equipment and procedures as "Doing it Right" implies that anything else is "Doing it Wrong" or, at the very least "Not Doing it Right."
This irritates and aggravates many of us.
I proposed changing the name to the much less confrontational "Doing it Rite" a la "Dive Rite" as a "Rite" is a far more accurate term for any set of standardized equipment and procedures, but that's fallen on deaf ears. Clinging to the acronym in the face of the many and varied objections may be viewed as the "right" thing to do among its devotees, but I'll just stick with my floaty yellow hose and tow strap harness
Rick