Received: by 10.180.82.193 with SMTP id k1mr303499wiy.0.1350463204438; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Path: q11ni134344391wiw.1!nntp.google.com!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-l...@python.org Delivered-To: python-l...@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.011 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'lines.': 0.07; 'governments': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.11; 'count,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'putting': 0.20; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'subject:list': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; "d'aprano": 0.29; 'restart': 0.29; 'steven': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'another': 0.33; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'most': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'world': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'importantly,': 0.65; 'democracy': 0.84; 'reminds': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-l...@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Aggressive language on python-list Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:40:05 +0100 References: <27cbf07c-60ac-41ac-a00f-dbe8edf45078@b9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <85099bc2-fa24-4cc5-bd94-3015b9af694f@googlegroups.com> <507d900e$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5a713407-d82f-4067-8ffa-6b8b66c1edf1@googlegroups.com> <507e1baf$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4b3d2a31-a901-49c5-8843-da6e6f639...@ro10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <507e4f1b$0$29887$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-31-25.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <507e4f1b$0$29887$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 121016-1, 16/10/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-l...@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1350463203 news.xs4all.nl 6929 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47731 X-Complaints-To: ab...@xs4all.nl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17/10/2012 07:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > And more importantly, welcome to democracy -- this is not a dictatorship, > Putting my pedantic hat on but there are few if any true democracies in the world. Most governments are run on (mis)representative lines. Which reminds me I must restart my campaign to be the first world president. Seven votes at the last count, another 3.5 billion and I'm first past the post. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.