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Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution

Terry 6 Silver badge

Ah, but there you go. Why would you expect that holding the button down for a few seconds makes the little bugger turn off? That is not what buttons are meant to do. They are meant to push > on. push again >off

Anything else is just madness. The very idea should never have been allowed to see the light of day. It deifies rationality. Where else is the concept that if something doesn't work you keep doing it considered rational?

If you didn't already know would you consider it?

What would your response be in any other circumstance if you caught someone saying "The switch refused to work so I'm gonna hold it down until it surrenders".

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