On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:27 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 4/21/06, David-Paul Niner <dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Maybe 100 people will believe that to be a ridiculous idea, but if a > > handful of people start talking about it, who knows where it would lead? > > I know where it will lead... to a 120 post long thread with 12 > participants. 6 of which think their ideas are great but don't have > the resources to implement any of them. The other 6 thinks the ideas > are bad and have decided that convincing the other 6 through sheer > superhuman retorical prowess is a constructive way to earn brownie > points with the 5 people in the thread that agree with them. No wait > 13 particpants. The 13th participant who hates everyone on general > principle and only gets involved in the discussion because the themes > being badly expressed by the other 12 people are too important to not > have something worthwhile come out of the discussion. > > -jef"Generally good ideas are generally very bad discussions. Boring, > mind-numbing detailed specific implementation issues are far more > constructive discussions"spaleta I've learned my own life lesson! ;-) DP ======================================= David-Paul Niner, RHCE dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Florida, United States of America Public Key for GPG key 1FCE01A2 available from http://www.dpniner.name GPG Fingerprint for key 1FCE01A2: 9147 2826 BF20 962D C53E 6B1C 97FD 77A6 1FCE 01A2 ======================================= -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
