Rich Johnson wrote: > > On May 31, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> Pascal Hakim wrote: >> >>> >>> Australian governor-generals are chosen by the prime minister... >>> (including John Kerr), and can be dismissed by the prime minister. Yes, >>> we technically have a race condition at the top of our government. >>> >>> (But finally! An off-topic debian-user politics thread on *Australia*) >>> >> >> That is hilarious. I have never heard of a political situation >> described as a race condition. So, what is the political equivalent of >> a stack smash or a buffer overflow? > > > OH!, I missed the obvious---BALLOT STUFFING! > > Hey, you asked :-) >
Cool. Then feature creep could be compared the current penchant of congress for passing new, unenforcable, unnecessary and stupid laws. We could also draw this analogy: Windows -> do everything centrally and take rights away from the little guy This is equivalent to the Democrat and neo-conservative approach to life Linux/Unix -> small tools that do one job well and empower the individual This would be the equivalent to the Libertarian and traditional conservative approach to life -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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