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I worked one time on a system that had a piece of beautiful circular logic
when you attempted to cancel an operation. You'd click CANCEL in the
interface, and a dialog box would come up that said, "Cancel operation:
CONTINUE/CANCEL"
The beauty of the thing was that in the dialog box, CANCEL meant to cancel
the cancel; CONTINUE meant to continue cancelling.
I was a trainer on this beauty -- I learned to schedule about 20 minutes to
just get that concept across.
