On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:03:14 +0000, Moray Allan wrote: > On 2012-12-01 00:27, gregor herrmann wrote: > >I find it quite irritating and disturbing that it's called "threats" > >when some people explain honestly and transparently in advance "I'm > >happy to work under cirumcstances foo but not under cirumstances bar" > >(instead of just showing the finger and letting others pick up the > >pieces after the fact). > For me "to threaten to resign" is a standard phrase, which does not > automatically include any negative judgement on the one who says > that they will resign (it's a fairly common phrase in political > contexts). Oh, I see. Seems this was a misunderstanding on my side caused by my German-influenced understanding of English ... Thanks for the clarification! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Ludwig Hirsch: Der Dorftrottel
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