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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:11:31
Message-Id: 201001301709.09987.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up... by Neil Bothwick
1 On Saturday 30 January 2010 02:06:42 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > > On the other hand, centralised storage means you shouldn't get idiots
4 > > > posting out CDs with millions of people's bank account details. There
5 > > > again, if the admins are lax enough to allow people to do this,
6 > > > and people are daft enough to do it, they would have real trouble
7 > > > understanding the concept of central storage :(
8 > >
9 > > You seem to grossly under-estimate the ability of the average idiot.
10 >
11 > We don't have average idiots in /our/ civil service!
12 >
13
14 What? You actively seek out the *special* idiots then?
15
16 [Or this is a Monty Python in-joke and I'm not getting it]
17
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19 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up... Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>