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

Sun Nov 20 19:35:08 CET 2011

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com>wrote:
+
+> 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:
+> >>>>
+> >>>> 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.
+> >>
+> >>
+> >> Romain
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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..........
+>
+
+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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