In message <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAJr5t2iPPpBNvSDbfl6YQSzCgAAAEAAAAEFTFDNE4rJFjhv9A [email protected]>, dated Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Richard Nute <[email protected]> writes:

Predicting what another
person wants to do in a given situation -
foreseeing -- is difficult or impossible.

It's difficult to do comprehensively, because some fools are exceptionally creative, but it is possible to predict some things of non-trivial probability. The classic example is fitting a replacement fuse of the wrong type or rating. That's why in my designs no fuses were accessible to the user.
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OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk
Quid faciamus nisi sit?
John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK

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