On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:03:03AM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > No one likes bureacracy. But I feel much happier about handing over money, > or persuading someone else to hand over money, to a group of people with > established procedures and collective responsibility, than to some > enthusiatic individual who promises the earth and whose the > world-number-one genius at code writing, but might also go and blow the > whole lot on girls and booze cos his cat died.
Let me make a clear statement here. I have no trouble with the committee making its decisions--that's what the committee is obliged to do. The committee is *not* obliged to feel secure about that; (nor do I feel obliged to allow them to feel secure about that ;) nevertheless, the committee is also not obliged to demonstrate its insecurity by heaping scorn upon such persons of indeterminate feline attachment while turning them down. A simple "no" would suffice without the we-had-to-say-this-because-you-suck bits. By the way, it's possible that I might deserve a little more money, because *my* cat died last year, and as near as I can tell, I didn't spend any money on girls and booze because of it... :) Larry
