Re: First Call for votes: General resolution for the handling of the non-free section
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:08:00 +1100, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> said:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:47:37PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
>> > > It's impossible to enforce a "STFU about it" option.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:51:49AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> > similarly, it's impossible to enforce a "Further Discussion"
>> > option yet it's there on the ballot.
>>
>> So?
>>
>> Maybe it would be clearer if you prefixed that with "Allow for".
>> Even more if you consider that this is a part of a decision making
>> process.
>>
>> Futher Discussion allows for further discussion before any binding
>> decisions are made.
>>
>> Does it make sense to talk about allowing people to shut up? Does
>> it make more sense to talk about allowing people to shut up before
>> decisions are made?
> are you fucking stupid? is everyone in debian fucking stupid? do
> you all have to squabble over the tiniest most pedantically trivial
> things? for fuck's sake, get a grip - argue all you like over REAL
> things, pick the shit out of REAL holes in people's arguments, but
> don't fucking waste time over stupid bullshit like this.
I could say the same about your original nit pick about the
ballot.
> the point, for those of you to stupid to work it out for yourselves
> even after being told TWICE what it is, is that it makes a very nice
> suggestion that it would be good if people just shut the fuck up
> about this subject. that's it. that's all. nothing else. no more
> can be read into it. and, surprisingly, it will not be enforced by
> debian storm-troopers or black helicopters.
Could you please take your own advice?
> i really don't know how much simpler i can put it than that. if
> even that is beyond you, then there is no point in trying again.
>> > and just in case you miss the point of this message: some of us
>> > are sick to death of this topic.
>>
>> So what?
> it would be nice if everyone would just shut the fuck up about it.
> that's "so what".
And you think introducing posts in the thread with
vituperative language is likely to be conducive to having people shut
up? My.
> are you sane? you seem to make a habit of going off on weird
> non-sequitir tangents that appear to have no relationship to reality
> or to anything that has gone before.
Asking for a shut up about is option on all ballots is not
going off on a tangent?
manoj
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