On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:29:01 +0000, Mick wrote:

> Depending on the particular discipline context "issue" can also mean a
> risk that has now been realised/manifested;  the familiar "oh sh*t!"
> moment, e.g. when you realised that rm -Rf / was not what you meant to
> have entered . . . before that moment you had a risk, afterwards an
> "issue".

No, you have a problem, or, as the motivators like to put it, an
opportunity!

I'm with stroller on this, the real meaning of issue has been subverted
by spin doctors so they can say problem without using the word problem.


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Neil Bothwick

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