Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Date: 14 Jan 2019 17:10:54 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.D860F0B204198B3FB02919BF@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net 1n5AxJ3TXGF0iKzGSjYcLg3pSn4OAIJatx44Foell2s19jeJ61 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5MTo7dR6GWezaQSmhdYYGdBgJZ4= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:120555 alt.comp.os.windows-10:82597 On 2019-01-14, David B. <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: > On 14/01/2019 02:12, Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2019-01-13, David B. <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: >>> On 13/01/2019 23:05, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> On 2019-01-13, David B. <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> wrote: >>>>> On 13/01/2019 22:04, Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>>> On 2019-01-13, Ed Norton wrote: >>>>>>> On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 12:52:33 -0500, David B. wrote >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with >>>>>>>> friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has >>>>>>>> very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person >>>>>>>> might even boast about being an expert. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> (snip) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Put simply, incompetent people think they know more than they really do, >>>>>>>> and they tend to be more boastful about it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You seem to know a lot about this. >>>>>> >>>>>> *mic drop* >>>>> >>>>> :-) >>>> >>>> Smile all you want. You show you think you know more than you do every >>>> time you post here. >>> >>> I'm a USER, not a techie! >> >> You are the Dunning-Kruger effect exemplified. > > Seems I'm a bit like YOU then! ;-) Dream on. You're more like the other resident troll, "arden". >>>>> *DO* you know why my iMac will not start in Safe Boot mode? >>>> >>>> User error. You're changing the subject, though. Don't make the mistake >>>> of thinking that isn't noticed. >>> >>> I *expect* such things will be noticed! >> >> Noticed and rejected. Stay on topic. > > It's OK for you not to know the answer. The Apple support staff don't > know either! I've owned and worked with many, many Macs, and have *never* been unable to boot into single user mode. The problem you are having is almost certainly caused by user error. That Apple Support gave up on you could simply be due to your sheer ineptitude. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR