From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 13:39:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB1837B724 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmpurser@home.com) Received: from C37259A ([24.9.57.64]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <20000317213929.MYUV2617.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C37259A>; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:39:29 -0800 Reply-To: From: "John Purser" To: "'Tim'" , Subject: RE: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:37:55 -0800 Message-ID: <000901bf9059$0efb42e0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <38D29DF0.353E@funbox.demon.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim, I think your prejudice is coloring your perception. I've got two grandmothers in nursing homes who require that someone care for them just as Adam provides care for his patients. When I read Brett saying Adam was a saint I heard no sarcasm at all. John Purser *********************************************************************** Currently boycotting Amazon.com To find out why visit: http://perl.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/amazon_patent.comments.pl For an alternative visit: http://www.powells.com/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of do not reply to this address Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 1:05 PM To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Brett G. wrote: >At 01:21 PM 3/17/2000 , G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > >> I wipe butts for a living. Literally! While my software is >> used all over the world, I work for near-minimum wage as a nursing >> assistant, caring for people with disabilities. My duties include >> cleaning them up whenever they are incontinent. > > You're a saint. Brett, I hope you did not mean to be as patronising as that sounds. I'm a nurse (psychiatric, but I've done my share of shit-shovelling), and that sort of remark really pisses me off. -- Tim Jackson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ please reply to: t i m . 6 3 4 @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message