On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 07:09, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:33 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > My mistake, I think I fixed it a little in my follow up, but my main > > point, is that for many purposes, my REAL name is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], not Brian Beattie, because that the the true, > > unique identifier (their are other Brian Beatties living I am sure). > > No. For all purposes your real name is Brian Beattie. You might use > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an identifier, but it is not your name. It > is an email address. Just like a social security number may be an > identifier, it is not you, nor your name.
Well what is my "real name" is actually a tricky meta physical problem, the question, is why do you care? > > > What does you government issued ID tell me that is important to > > gentoo-dev? > > Not a damn thing. Have you not been paying any attention? It only > shows that the person claiming to be Brian Beattie *and* has an ID > saying so, is indeed Brian Beattie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] once > everything has been verified. Why do you care what name is on my birth certificate? > > Nothing more. -- Brian Beattie LFS12947 | "Honor isn't about making the right choices. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It's about dealing with the consequences." www.beattie-home.net | -- Midori Koto -- [email protected] mailing list
