ok - now i'm confused over where the in-fighting is taking place... Seems more like educating the masses to prepare to fight the bad guys a little better<br><br>I see questions and clarifications, not arguments. Maybe I'm not reading enough into it
<br><br>K<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Lloyd</b> <<a href="mailto:lloy0076@adam.com.au">lloy0076@adam.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>James,<br><br>> This is the most frustrating point. Its like punching fog, you can see<br>> vague shapes but you can't land any solid blows.<br><br>It's classical "conquer and divide" behaviour.<br><br>
It goes like this:<br><br>1. I'm going to do something<br>2. It's controversial but I won't really tell you exactly what I'm going<br> to do<br>3. You can all fight with each other and if I think that by telling you<br>
more will make you in-fight more I will<br>4. Also, I'm going to gather the arguments you have against what I want<br> to do<br>5. Noticing the way you're infighting and the arguments you'll probably<br> use against me, I'll now tell you exactly what I'm going to do
<br>6. Incidentally, I'll give you a ridiculously short amount of time to<br> digest it<br>7. If you complain I haven't given enough time, what about all that<br> time taken in (1, 2, 3 and 4)<br><br>So, I can claim I have consulted you (huh, my partial explanations do so
<br>fit what I'm actually going to do), you're all fighting each other and<br>my supporters have already marshalled arguments against you in case you<br>haven't all confused yourselves totally already.<br><br>Also, this means that people only partially interested in what I want to
<br>do get bored by you arguing about it all the time...<br><br>Result?<br><br>I win.<br><br>DSL<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-aus mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">
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