
I once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
( , Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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it doesn't follow that someone who ignores something is de facto ignorant.
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 15:34, 4 replies)

ignorant/ˈignərənt/
1. Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated: "he was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid".
2. Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about something in particular: "they were ignorant of astronomy"
it therefore follows that, in the second definition, the aviation loby and pro avaition MPs' lack of awareness of the impact that the aviation industry has on west london's population in both health and social terms can be said to be 'ignorant'.
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 15:41, closed)

could possibly be wilfull ignorance, but is more likely to be simple not giving a shit. Standard MO for all politicians and business-types.
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:06, closed)

It's possible that they've just reached a different conclusion based on the evidence. I hate to come over all sympathetic to that shower of bastards, but you've not shown that there's anything they don't know that they reasonably might be expected to know.
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( , Wed 5 Sep 2012, 22:10, closed)

So what is someone ignoring someone engaged in the process of?
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 15:42, closed)

Just a thought.
I suppose you could call a person with a propensity to ignore things (perhaps things that she ought not to ignore) self-absorbed, or distracted, or uninterested, or negligent, or... well, it's a long list. But I'd want to deny that "ignorant" would be on there.
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 17:36, closed)

They are definitely not ignorant. History is littered with 'promises' and 'pledges' that have not been fulfilled, but have been ignored. It doesn't make politicians ignorant, maybe more clever b******s who know how to work the electorate (as much as we'd like to think they don't).
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 15:55, closed)

I do not like the development of 'career politicians' - it means we're voting for people who have been trained in the art of winning votes. It moves them from reality.
( , Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:02, closed)
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