On 12-05-31 at 10:06am, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:03:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There is no excuse for hijacking a package, ever. > > ... > > Hmm, this arguing sounds quite German to me. Rules are rules are > rules and you should not disregard them. So a German will wait in > front of a red traffic light even if there is no visible sign of any > car and no sound that might give some signal for any traffic. When I > was abroad I enjoyed the habit of other nations just to know when > breaking a rule makes perfectly sense. I also think that some common > sense could be applied in very obvious cases and this discussion shows > that several respected people do agree that there are cases like this > where there actually is an excuse for hijacking a package. I am danish, not german, and I wait at traffic lights, also at night. ...or sometimes I do. Pretty often I cross at red light, but am then prefectly aware that I break the rules, and I take eventual punishment for that [with a smile]. You can have _reasons_ for hijacking, but no reason is an excuse: It is never ok to hijack. Hijack is takeover without either explicit approval or community consensus. Following a community approved procedure for takeover without the explicit consent of the former maintainer it is not hijacking. Are we both talking about same meaning of "hijacking" and "excuse"? - Jonas [with a smile]: I also break the rules when abroad, and have fould that especially in USA my smiling risk escalating matters - the policemen get confused when I smile while they write a fine or [just a warning]. [just a warning]: A month ago I drove on a bike on the sidewalk in Brooklyn and nearly ran down three policemen standing at a corner. Surprisingly they only gave me a warning - I had expected a fine then. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gilmore for lending me the bike! -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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