Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:34:39PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: > >and just as you don't cure quadraplegia by breaking the arms and legs of > >healthy people, you don't cure meekness by making healthy people fearful & > >timid. > > Nice analogy. It is indeed not the fault of able-bodied people th

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yes, bullying happens too. but meekness happens whether there is any actual > bullying or not. Meekness isn't harmful, nor does it ever justify your bullying. Thomas

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:41:32AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:27:30AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > meekness isn't about bullying. > > > > it's (partially) about perceiving bullying whether it's really there or not. > > it is a disability which varies in severity from

Re: Report from the Debian Java developers meeting at FOSDEM

2004-03-06 Thread Don Armstrong
This is slightly OT for -project. MFT: set to -legal On Sat, 06 Mar 2004, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > So, as Kaffe is licensed under the GPL, the combination of Kaffe + > Classpath must be licensed under the terms of the GPL (as per Kaffe's > license). No exception for linking (a la Classpath) may b

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread David B Harris
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 13:07:39 +0100 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:27AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > Is this just a game to you? > > I wondered how many messages it would take for someone to notice. I've always wondered why so many threads in Debian ende

Re: Report from the Debian Java developers meeting at FOSDEM

2004-03-06 Thread Etienne Gagnon
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:57:56PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Debian-legal didn't follow the interpretation of GPL of Etienne, another > SableVM developer, the last time around, when he was asserting Kaffe > being GPLd makes Java applications undistributable. Instead, > debain-legal supported

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Helen Faulkner
From: Craig Sanders meekness isn't about bullying. it's (partially) about perceiving bullying whether it's really there or not. it is a disability which varies in severity from being mildly shy to being socially crippled..it is not the fault, or responsibility, of non-meek people, any more t

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-04 01:36]: > OK. Last I heard, irc.debian.org #debian is a project > resource. Here is an example of how women are treated in Debian; and > helix tells me that this is how they are treated all the time [...] > However, #debian on irc.deb

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:55:57AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:22:06AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > Not that a baby-eating example isn't a bit loaded ... but ok, I'll run > > with it: > > > > "Many orange-haired people have been observed to eat babies. ... ...

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:39:50PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > I can demonstrate evidence that I'm not a gerbil quite handily. On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:08:49AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > No you can't, because you're a gerbil and gerbils can't form rational > arguments. If it's true tha

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:18:57AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > I certainly won't tolerate it. It's fundamentally incompatible with > getting any useful work done. Down that road leads political > correctness (not just the word-substitution form), where you cannot > say something that is true an

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:27AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Is this just a game to you? I wondered how many messages it would take for someone to notice. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 11:22:06AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Andrew Suffield] > > "We can't be sure whether this orange-haired person likes to eat > > babies or not. He probably does, lock him up". > > Not that a baby-eating example isn't a bit loaded ... but ok, I'll run > with it: > >

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andrew Suffield] > "We can't be sure whether this orange-haired person likes to eat > babies or not. He probably does, lock him up". Not that a baby-eating example isn't a bit loaded ... but ok, I'll run with it: "Many orange-haired people have been observed to eat babies. Here we have an oran

Re: Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread George Sawyer
Erinn, > -- "Erinn Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 5 Mar 2004 02:19:29 -0500 said: > > If I may, here are three simple rules to follow when dealing with women: > 1. Don't pander to us just because we're women. > 2. Don't flirt with us just because we're women. > 3. Don't insult us just because

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Ben Burton
> "We can't be sure whether this orange-haired person likes to eat > babies or not. He probably does, lock him up". > > If I have to make a guess then I do, but I don't pretend it's anything > more than a (possibly educated) guess. If you want to promote some > action based on your guess - go ahe

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That may be true. However, you may have overlooked Erinn Clark's post > to this thread, which, fortuitously, has just the sort of information > you seem to be asking for. By no means would I ever say that the evidence isn't forthcoming. I've seen it

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it is more than reasonable to entertain the possibility that a > similar cause is, in the present case, responsible for a similar > result. And even to take action based on that assumption. Or do you > always wait for perfect information befo

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Thomas Bushnell, BSG] > I agree that Debian has a problem in this area and that it's worth > worrying about and trying to fix. I do not think that Helen has > given us any information about it; she is guessing at what men > usually do, and imputing that to us, and guessing about how women > feel

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Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:27AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Andrew Suffield] > > Psychology and sociology are fuzzy "sciences" for the most part, > > where very little is proven. That does not mean that the standards > > for proof should be lowered, it means that their conclusions should

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andrew Suffield] > Psychology and sociology are fuzzy "sciences" for the most part, > where very little is proven. That does not mean that the standards > for proof should be lowered, it means that their conclusions should > be treated with the usual skepticism and not as things which have > been

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:06:50PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:35:03PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:21:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > You have an alternate theory explaining the low incidence of > >> > women in male do

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:26:44PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:58:03 +, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:16:43PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:35:03PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> > On Fri

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:39:17PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > With our underlying culture, I'm not sure if any attempts to change us will > truly ever succeed in making us the caring, sharing, non-confrontational > group that will make every person happy to work with us. Hell, if we become > n

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:39:50PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:48:13PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > The alternative is that there is nothing interesting here. It's not a > > very interesting alternative. Occam's razor says we go with it until > > we have a reason t

Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates

2004-03-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:27:30AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > meekness isn't about bullying. > > it's (partially) about perceiving bullying whether it's really there or not. > it is a disability which varies in severity from being mildly shy to being > socially crippled..it is not the fault