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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] nix at lsub
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:23:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <407b661b3cf85471a21f52303e8f0167@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9W7-g-73-p0yKrYc0AJhkXxPEg-ZBT1WH7XvFqDMvQp79dTg@mail.gmail.com>

> IMO, there is nothing generally wrong with taking the path of least
> resistence, so long as open is open minded and also so long as it is not
> the only path being considered.

Except that by definition the path of least resistance is the only one
of its type.  You buy the reason, you paint yourself in the corner.  I
do grant that one may choose the path of least resistance for reasons
other than the ostensible one, but I doubt that would be anything more
than an accident.  Can you see where my reasonaing takes me?

++L




  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-19 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-18 18:05 arnold
2012-04-19  1:37 ` hiro
2012-04-19  4:15   ` Jeff Sickel
2012-04-19  8:10     ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-19  8:16       ` Joseph Stewart
2012-04-19  8:46         ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-19 10:03           ` Bakul Shah
2012-04-19 10:32             ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-19 16:36               ` Bakul Shah
2012-04-19 15:50 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2012-04-19 16:11   ` Lucio De Re
2012-04-19 17:09     ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2012-04-19 17:56       ` Lucio De Re
2012-04-19 18:05         ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-04-19 18:23           ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2012-04-19 18:27           ` Lucio De Re
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-18 16:09 arnold
2012-04-18 16:18 ` Nemo
2012-04-18 16:28   ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-18 16:35     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-04-18 17:43 ` Lucio De Re
2012-04-18 15:45 arnold
2012-04-18 15:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-04-14 21:02 Nemo
2012-04-15 13:45 ` David Leimbach
2012-04-16 10:47 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-04-16 11:02   ` Noah Evans
2012-04-16 17:23     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2012-04-16 17:32       ` Noah Evans
2012-04-16 17:42         ` Noah Evans
2012-04-16 17:44         ` ron minnich
2012-04-16 20:53         ` Andrés Domínguez
     [not found]     ` <CAEAzY380ECzLQJCbNaK=QiYE6vzQpqTW3ZoakzW7EJ-WajptHg@mail.gmail.c>
2012-04-16 17:54       ` sl
2012-04-16 13:22   ` Christoph Lohmann
2012-04-16 18:04     ` Lucio De Re
2012-04-17  2:16 ` kokamoto
2012-04-17  5:53   ` andy zerger
2012-04-17  5:54     ` andy zerger
2012-04-17  7:17   ` Nemo
2012-04-17  8:41     ` kokamoto
2012-04-17  8:51       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-04-17 12:22       ` Tristan
2012-04-17 18:56       ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-17 19:13         ` Nemo
     [not found]         ` <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
2012-04-18  0:26           ` kokamoto
2012-04-18  4:07             ` John Floren
2012-04-18  4:12               ` John Floren
2012-04-18  7:54             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2012-04-18 12:27               ` Charles Forsyth
2012-04-18 12:35                 ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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