Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:29:15 -0500:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:06 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> From an outside perspective, I'm sure it's amazing and crass that USians >> see nothing unusual about the national holiday of thanks being directly >> followed by the biggest day of commercial greed in the entire year, as >> the opening day of the biggest season of commercial greed, obsensibly as >> preparation for the day of celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the >> man seen as the Son of God, and quoted as saying it's easier for a camel >> to pass thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into >> paradise! Interesting commentary on our culture! > > What the hell does this have to do with Gentoo development? About the same as the original reference to "after the Thanksgiving holiday" which prompted the question to which it is a reply, which was in the context you snipped. As such, certainly as much or more than oblique references to harems and goats and people's butts (well, unless there's something about Gentoo development I don't know about, yet <g>), all topics that have come up in passing on the list, just as this did, without this question being asked of those posters. It may be possible to automate code creation, but it's not possible to automate a community, and humans in such a community /don't/ tend to stay strictly on topic. That's just the way humans are, and have been for far longer than either you or I have been around. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
