On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:27 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote:
> 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?

When did I make claim that I did?

> > > 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?

I don't and am increasingly not caring the more you continue with this.

However, the law does care.  The Gentoo Foundation is a legal entity, at
least in the United States.  Because of that, we must take certain
precautions that would otherwise not be needed.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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