From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 25 13:23:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA12316 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA12311 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA08001 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:22:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA15964; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:56:01 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970625215601.TJ53654@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:56:01 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD chat list) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.local References: <21447.867247400@time.cdrom.com> <1886.867248039@critter.dk.tfs.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <1886.867248039@critter.dk.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Jun 25, 1997 16:13:59 +0200 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >I've noted before that it's always the smallest changes which incite > >the greatest number of follow-ups, ... > It's called "the Parkinson principle", which paraphrased goes something > like "You can get permission to build a nuclear plant, because people > do not understand it so they dare not object or they would show their > ignorance. But try to get permission for a bike-shelter..." You are _so_ right. I didn't remember Parkinson's law before, but now that you mention it, that's it. Sigh. This means we finally evolved into a fully-fledged bureaucracy. :-( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)