On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:31:18PM +0200, holger krekel wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 22:16 -0700, David Ascher wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2005 9:13 PM, Tripp Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, David Ascher wrote: > > > > > > > I think the idea of joking around with religious terms like ministry is > > > > a bad idea, because we're not as funny as John Cleese & friends. > > > > > > Just for the record, the term "ministry," outside the U.S., has more to do > > > with administrative functions of government: > > > > I'm well aware of that (I'm French =). However, I don't think the US > > perspective is insignificant when it comes to PR =). > > > > At least in France, it's also true that ministries bring forth > > concepts of inefficiency, bureaucracy, obnoxious power-hungry civil > > servants. Not exactly what I'd want associated w/ my software if it > > was mine, but whatever. =) > > Hey, that sounds similar to what we have in germany, with > the addition that they are even plainly evil in some respects > (thinking of the incredible stance the "justice" ministry > takes for software patents against a >90% anti-sw-patents > vote of the national parliament).
Oh, OK. +1 on changing all U.S. agency names to "Ministry of ...." then ;) I liked the "pit" suggestion, but MOPP works for me too. Even with PyPI being discussed here, I have a hard time reading it as being anything other than something to do with math. (Could be the residual resentment of years of coerced advanced math in school.) I can hardly think of anything worse. Something that makes no sense at all is better than something that unintentionally confuses. mwa -- Mark W. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] The contents of this message authored by Mark W. Alexander are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Copyright of quoted materials, if any, are retained by the original author(s). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-sig mailing list Catalog-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
