-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 23:17, Amy Templeton wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:03:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/08/07 21:55, Amy Templeton wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> It's a private college, and have no desire to make this >>>> anywhere near that insane, but thank you nonetheless. I'm >>>> basically wishfully hoping for a quiet solution. >>> If it's liberal, and it probably is, you could claim >>> Discrimination. All the more so since you're female. > > I appreciate the suggestion, but I'd rather not pull status on this > one, you know? That is a card to be saved up and used in an > emergency to which it has direct bearing, or else it loses all > meaning and becomes trite. Thanks, though.
There are those of us who believe that claims of discrimination became trite many years ago. [snip] > Hahaha...some of them assume I'm a "wizard" since I use GNU/Linux. > This is not the case. And let me put it this way: a friend of mine > went through one of their classes on Python and came out with no > idea that he'd been editing text files, no idea that Python could > be run from a shell, no idea what an executable was, and, in fact, > not even knowing what a shell was (even though it was apparently Tell us again why you go to such a school? (But then, until I go senile I'll remember the girl who got "A"s on all her Comp Sci tests, but didn't know what this mizz-dos thing was on her floppy disks, and why it was necessary. And I thought that the 6Mhz IBM PC-AT chomped thru Turbo Pascal at a stunningly amazing speed.) > Anyway...done ranting. I don't really think this thread is going > anywhere, so sorry to waste everybody's time and inbox space. That's what 250GB hard drives are for. > I'll > just suck it up and get back to work on being the Dissenting Voice, > burnout aside. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQVcHS9HxQb37XmcRAokBAJ9e5EDCYtWYvwQmCxYzDM6eh8ORygCglmwz zDTFEfGUnciNea5RPKQjBTg= =pNWl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]