[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

Don Juan donjuansjiz at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 20:20:49 EST 2012


On 01/04/2012 05:11 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2012 6:26 PM, "Peter Lewis"<plewis at aur.archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
>>>> Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
>>>> that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
>>>> You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what
>>>> packages get included, I never said otherwise. We obviously can't let
>>>> everyone in the community have read/write access to the community
>>>> repo, but the packages that the community members voted for in the
> AUR,
>>>> are being looked at by the Trusted Users. That's not a problem to me,
> and
>>>> if anything is a sign of a Representative Democracy. In the AUR aspect
>>>> specifically.
>>> Hitler was also chosen because of his intelligence and other
>>> credentials. How does this relate? Just because a person is elected
>>> because of "perceived" credentials that you can obviously prove that
>>> they have, does not mean that the person will continue to act in that
>>> fashion. Hopefully they will.
>> 24+ messages in a thread which itself is a split from its original. Nice
> to
>> see that Godwin's Law [1] still applies on "proper" mailing lists in 2012
> ;-)
>> Happy new year folks!
>>
>> Pete.
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>>
> Lol Pete. I was actually speaking to Ross about this law when he brought it
> to my attention. I didn't even know it existed and I normally tend to
> refrain from bringing Hitler into a conversion. Maybe I should have brought
> a politician that always promises things, but once elected changes his
> views and attitudes.
>
> Happy new year as well.
Nixon ? LOL ;P


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