Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:26, Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400
>
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time
> > unless you get something for it.  That's not volunteering.
> > Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI.
>
> This is fiction.  Everyone who volunteers gets a return on their
> investment; without it, they wouldn't volunteer.  That "return"
> may not be in some sort of traditional form like cash, goods, or
> services; but if the volunteer absolutely truly got nothing out
> of it -- no sense of satisfaction, no gladness at having been
> able to help another, absolutely nothing -- then there is nothing
> to drive the volunteer towards that activity as opposed to another.

Ironic that you would say this, especially considering your sig.

Hal

> Chris Metzler                   cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net
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> "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace
> since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear