YudA wrote:
So are you saying image is more important than substance?
Depends on what substance you're toking! ;-)
This is an image world. You get judged on your image. People also apply a default image to us based on what they see us do, despite not knowing what else we may do...
I certainly hope not. I think Nandor has done the
Green Party, and the left in NZ in general, an enormous disservice.
Nandor looks the rasta/doper part for sure, but his stand on dope will have made him many more friends (and enemies!) than many other politicians. I think his opinion on opensource is likely to generate interest (both good and bad) in a similar manner...
Who knows? Perhaps future linux users will be labelled dopers instead of geeks? ;-) <duck!>
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
PS. I never touch the stuff, since a) It stinks!, and b) I'd fail a sports-drug test and sink into morbid depression were I banned from doing my sport! ;-)
