HeY LeT Me ShArE My JeSuS

Interviewer: Do you go to church?

The fuck, man! This is a god damn interview for an enterprise-class J2EE job.  I know the guy's christian, so obviously I had to give some bullshit about how I'm now agnostic, but previously christian.

I thought getting a job was supposed to be trivial if my GPA was high and my work experience was solid.  God damn.  Now I know how it feels to be black.

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To carry this back to the discussion at hand.
You seem to be of the opinion that rationality guides the decisions that go into making a spec (be it hardware or software): i.e. "It's round because it makes sense that way."

Having looked at enough specs to achieve a flash of enlightenment I realize that it is in fact human stupidity and greed that are much more powerful forces than rationality; every single time.

That is to say the manhole covers are round because someone thought it was a way to make more money off those juicy government contracts, not because they gave two shits about safety.