[Mageia-artwork] Mageia-artwork Digest, Vol 13, Issue 21

[Donald Stewart]

On 20 November 2011 18:35, Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 20 November 2011 18:22, tumbeliina <tumbeliina at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > I voted Max too :)
>> >
>> > tumbeliina
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com>
>> > To: Mageia artwork discussion and work list <mageia-artwork at mageia.org>
>> > Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 7:28 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Mageia-artwork] Mageia-artwork Digest, Vol 13, Issue 21
>> >
>> > On 20 November 2011 17:25, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 14:08, Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Donald Stewart
>> >>> <watersnowrock at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
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>> >>>> Thanks, what does that make it now?
>> >>>
>> >>> Looks like 2-2.
>> >>> Not sure who Tumbeliina voted for, and rda didn't cast a vote.
>> >>
>> >> I believe I did, maybe it wasn't explicit enough, sorry :-p for Max.
>> >> But at the time I did not understand Donald was running for it as
>> >> well. Now I'm confused :-p Ok. For Max then.
>> >>
>> >>
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>> > I wasn't running, but I appear to have been voted for, and I have no
>> > idea about out election by rules. But seeing as Max is winning it
>> > seems ok.
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>> TeaAge, you have a problem, both of the deputy candidates appear to
>> not want the job..........
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> But that's a good thing. It means that both candidates will do a good job.
> Douglas Adams wrote:
> "One of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get
> to do it.
> Or rather, who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
> To summarize, it is a well-known and much lamented fact that those people
> who most want to rule people are ipso facto those least suitable to do it.
> To summarize the summary, anyone who is capable of getting themselves made
> president should on no account be allowed to do the job.
> To summarize the summary of the summary, people are a problem."
>
> This can be applied not just to presidency, but to any position of
> responsibility.
> By that logic, anybody who does not want the job, and takes steps to avoid
> getting the job, once the job is forced upon that person he or she will do a
> good job.
>
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I love that quote.