JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

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Yes, William, I expect more. But I have to admit that when people are afraid for their livelihoods, they do tend to act against the "greater good" if it will help their own individual circumstances. That's why I think it's so important to make sure our systems and institutions are designed to harness human nature to increase the "greater good".

Hugh, please, it's getting painful. I mean seriously:

"Even though the only people who are losing bone calcium are those who drink milk like water, they will defend their livelihood."

Does that make *any* sense whatsoever to you? Do you really think the mind that came up with that sentence is ever going to see your point of view?

Joe, I gotta say that I know William personally, and I will vouch for him 100%. Friends don't always have to agree with one another. The fact that William chooses a Linux Users Group as his medium for defending Bill Gates may seem a little unusual, but I think it's borne more from a sense of frustration about developing viable models for successful business in the Linux realm. I think we'd all like to see Linux as successful as Microsoft has been. And I think we will. -Hugh _______________________________________________ Hugh Reilly XEN Technology Group | LinuxLab 600 Bay Street, Suite 405 Toronto ON M5R 1G6 tel: 416-204-9951 fax: 416-204-9723 email: info-2K4XOyu7qTosA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ http://www.xen.ca | http://www.linuxlab.ca

From: JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Waaaay offtopic Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:54:58 -0500

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:37:28 -0500 "Hugh Reilly" <hughreilly1-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

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Yes, William, I expect more. But I have to admit that when people are afraid for their livelihoods, they do tend to act against the "greater good" if it will help their own individual circumstances. That's why I think it's so important to make sure our systems and institutions are designed to harness human nature to increase the "greater good".

Hugh, please, it's getting painful. I mean seriously:

"Even though the only people who are losing bone calcium are those who drink milk like water, they will defend their livelihood."

Does that make *any* sense whatsoever to you? Do you really think the mind that came up with that sentence is ever going to see your point of view?

Anyway, it's your call, but my guess is we're a coupla cans short of a sixpack with this one :-P

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