begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:33:39PM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > So are we talking *practice*, or are we just talking about how good we > > are at SAYING we are? > > Dunno. Am I required to say I think we are bad at both?
Can't require you to say you think anything. :) As for me, I think we talk the talk more than we walk the walk, but we do manage to stumble along the path. > > Yup. > > > > 'course, if you replace "Vietnam" with "USA", it *still* works. > > I realize this is the expected cynical comment to make here but that > really isn't true. Our papers and governments do not tell us we are > free. Not like the ones over there do. The freedom we enjoy here is of > an entirely different magnitude. Wouldn't they say that otherwise? > <required-kooler-weasel-wording>Yes, we > are not as free as we would like to be.</required-kooler-weasel-wording> > But it really isn't the same. 'Course not, 'cuz we're here, we're used to this... and we're rich. [snip] > > That's not the same thing as saying they solved the problem. > > No, it's not. But at least they have the potential to solve it which is > a lot more than can be said for the rest of us who are not even trying. Oh, there's been a LOT of effort over the years to solve the problem. Why do you think I'm aware of how hard it is? -Stewart "QoS looks so promising..." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
