...or as Ken Livingstone said: "If voting changed anything they'd abolish it."
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:57 AM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7 Apr 2008, at 12:24, Robin Paulson wrote: > > 2008/4/7 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> stumbled across a quote by David D Clark (of Internet > >> architecture fame) today. He said: > >> > >> "We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough > >> consensus and running code." > > > > maybe someone should tell the government? apparently we're all wasting > > our time voting for them, and 'rough consensus' should be used to > > decide who's in power. > > Like, er, electing President Bush, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown (no > election) ? > > > > > > > > did he have any basis for it, or was it just a nice pseudo-anarchic > > sound bite? > > > >> Not that I'm into gurus and such but it's nice to see that I am not > >> the only sane person on earth who doubts that formal voting processes > >> are not necessarily the best thing to have ;-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > Best > > Steve > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
