From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <1153848474.18642.13.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> References: <5c04e44072538158af1aa0c3ce3f7349@plan9.bell-labs.com> <44C54D60.9040803@lanl.gov> <44C62E42.1010904@anvil.com> <1153845661.18642.8.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> <1153848474.18642.13.camel@heater.intranet.ebr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7AAC45E8-9468-4CD5-A105-D169AF72BCA4@cibernet.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Baldwin Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:33:44 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8c8dffde-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I feel like responding... oh never mind. I shall do what I'm told, sir! You are so right: authority needs to put its foot down and not stand for any funny business. Or else. On 2006 Jul 25, at 13:27, ems wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 18:56 +0200, Ignacio Torres Masdeu wrote: >> On 7/25/06, ems wrote: >>> My understanding he got banned for not stopping when asked to stop >>> mutliple times. >> >> Well, he probably needs to learn when a joke is "exhausted" or it is >> not funny anymore. But he did apologize in the message that got him >> banned: >> http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2006-July/048264.html > > Being told you must stop means you must stop. Continuing and > apologizing > is not stopping. Sometimes authority must practice power to shows when > it says something it means it. Making a joke out of authority is > normally a worse crime than what was done. >