Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:36:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer), freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bikesheds Message-ID: <7036.963866191@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "17 Jul 2000 21:55:29 %2B0200." <xzphf9oy1ji.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> Bzzt, wrong, but thanks for playing. > > A bikeshed discussion is a discussion about a bikeshed which everyone > agrees would be nice to have in the back yard, but will fight until > death to stop it from being built because, as they repeatedly and > loudly point out, the suggested paint scheme is just *wrong*. Actually, as someone who remembers phk's original discussion (and the citation of some Danish aphorism from which it springs), this is wrong too. :-) It has to do with getting planning permits and building the damn thing at all. You can generally get permission to build a sky-scraper since that just involves greasing a few politicians and dealing with the people downtown, but try and put a bike shed on the corner in your neighborhood... - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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