Rules are relatively new in football's history. The original game goes way back before medieval times and had few or no rules, even methods of scoring was not consistent and some had very indistinct 'goals'. Variants of the older game still survive in specific villages and a few towns throughout Europe. One that is restricted to a set pitch rather than using the entire town is played between prisoners released for the day and is more of a boxing match between various groups of players, no gloves.
In pool halls and pubs the players often agree to which set of rules apply before the game. Same with poker, backgammon, even chess has many variants. Rules that are too rigid, inflexible and fail to take into account what people commonly do will often found to be broken and re-written later. Just because something is written as a rule now does not mean that it will be acceptable behaviour in the future (or in the past). Smoking pot was legal until 1969 in the US. Prohibition failed to stop people from drinking and was finally stopped. Nowadays people seem to be encouraged to drink. Does that mean drinking is good or was bad. I realise that people with OCD and autism often need tightly controlled environments and that skilled or even gifted IT people tend to have a much higher percentage of people with those conditions than the general population but people with those conditions often go in completely opposite directions of what they need. So, i can see why some people would argue to restrict other people's use of the lists and i even think that is fairly fine on some of the lists but the users list is the first and only way for most new people to access help and those new people are unlikely to be familiar with bottom-posting and may not want to change their entire emailing system just to get an answer to 1 quick question. We need to be flexible on this list. Both top and bottom (and other) posting must be allowed to continue otherwise we restrict the percentage of people that would feel welcomed and feel like continuing to use LO. If we don't want new users and want to make people feel uneasy and unwelcome then fine, insist on bottom posting. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: toki <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 1 June, 2011 0:21:49 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] <OT>Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30/05/2011 21:42, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > If you're going to a football match, you do obey the rules for the game, you >don't make up your own rules, Supposedly, both rugby and Australian rules football got started that way. jonathon - -- If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth requesting. If Bing did not copy Google, there wouldn't be anything relevant worth requesting. DaveJakeman 20110207 Groklaw. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN5XgNAAoJEERA7YuLpVrVmRgH/1vwFpNSMi2a30QHyCrU4QQj tRgZynIJbfsJv9JTXSEv9eFwuk0IGX25+Ct7KDWGmTPE8zWM3gWauQAPT2ewJhuS ggRBhu9ZojETSgeFIe9jDKBkHTPt822MHLKVZ5f7i9wRTHaNUGPCfOzGaFFojBjC DhtlII1BMKeLP6xeWnUGpI6daQwYqF5bn8H2mQIyEPnjLOSMhPDlmb4O+wyGHWof DR2PgV3s2AAXLFYqV5W6xm+4AJP7E+MvdLX1ns0r7RpLCoUrwDDkm/CpNudG0HVJ iEc8UozcBAs0Yxq66ZisH7Vu031jZWuA/AEFqbnaPKvcBRQRplsP9SgB6ne9XKc= =hAmk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
