{"id":82,"date":"2004-02-05T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnu.inter.it\/blogs\/fabu\/?p=82"},"modified":"2004-02-05T00:38:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T22:38:42","slug":"snafu-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/05\/snafu-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAFU Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SNAFU Principle: &#8220;True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;e purtroppo sul lavoro si incontrano &#8220;capaci&#8221; leccaculo che spesso e volentieri si impegnano a dimostrarne la correttezza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nBTW, dal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/jargon\/html\/S\/SNAFU-principle.html\">Jargon File<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>SNAFU principle<\/b>: \/sna\u00b4foo prin\u00b4si\u00b7pl\/, n.<br \/>\n[from a WWII Army ac\u00adro\u00adnym for \u0091Situation Normal, All Fucked Up\u0092] \u0093True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.:\u0094 \u0097 a central tenet of Discordianism, often invoked by hackers to explain why authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and systematically. The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of decision-makers from reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNAFU Principle: &#8220;True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.&#8221; &#8230;e purtroppo sul lavoro si incontrano &#8220;capaci&#8221; leccaculo che spesso e volentieri si impegnano a dimostrarne la correttezza. &#8212; BTW, dal Jargon File: SNAFU principle: \/sna\u00b4foo prin\u00b4si\u00b7pl\/, n. [from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/05\/snafu-principle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SNAFU Principle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabioinvernizzi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}