From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HxzS9-0000HS-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:02:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5C60P2S025923; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:00:25 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5C5wG87021973 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:58:17 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A70664BB8 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:58:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.731 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.731 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.731] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OMXW3fTcu8lD for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:58:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603B864C0B for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HxzO9-00083q-6x for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:57:57 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-15-181.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.15.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:57:57 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-15-181.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:57:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4667A38B.7070308@gentoo.org> <20070611021535.GE5778@seldon> <466DF5FA.1000606@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-15-181.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.131 (Ghosts: First Variation) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5e81d5d5-7dbf-4a0c-934c-0d726e44aa47 X-Archives-Hash: 18633bbfd870bf16f872fdd5fde356b7 Kumba posted 466DF5FA.1000606@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:25:14 -0400: > It's competition, at the core. No one likes draws, ties, or even photo > finishes, let alone losing. They like to win, and win by a large > margin. If someone tries to slip the last word in to get them over that > virtual finish line, rest assured someone else is gonna fire off an even > more last word just to one up them, and when we're talking mere microts > from the finish line, sometimes the gloves come off. > > Besides, it's not like a +2 Great Darkwood Crossbow of Acid is all > _that_ expensive. Probably a pain in the neck to load (and the kickback > has to hurt), but well it just means you need to level up some more :) Wow, talk about mixed metaphors! Foot-racing > boxing > AD&D. You've got gumption to try and pull /that/ off! =8^) I guess it works, tho, if you don't try to stretch any of them beyond the limited area they were applied to (which this sort of case begs... resist... resist... =8^) . (And yes, this'd go on the other list, if we had it.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list