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

Sun Nov 20 19:37:04 CET 2011

On 20 November 2011 18:35, Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>
+>
+> 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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+I love that quote.
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