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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:06:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100130000642.3b3d4a42@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001300021.34013.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > On the other hand, centralised storage means you shouldn't get idiots
> > posting out CDs with millions of people's bank account details. There
> > again, if the admins are lax enough to allow people to do this,
> > and people are daft enough to do it, they would have real trouble
> > understanding the concept of central storage :(
> >   
> 
> You seem to grossly under-estimate the ability of the average idiot.

We don't have average idiots in /our/ civil service!


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Math and alcohol don't mix. Don't drink and derive.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-30  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28 12:31 [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up Stroller
2010-01-28 12:41 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-01-29  5:41   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-01-29  5:43 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-01-29  9:04   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-29 10:00   ` Stroller
2010-01-29 14:09     ` Iain Buchanan
2010-01-29 21:48       ` Mick
2010-01-29 21:59       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-29 22:21         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-30  0:06           ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-01-30  6:06             ` Iain Buchanan
2010-01-30  9:15             ` Stroller
2010-01-30 15:09             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-01 13:29               ` Neil Bothwick

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