[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: Request for a poll: (was RE: Datatypes vs anarchy)

• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:34:39 -0600

That's good.  I thought we 
would have to invoke the same 
rules we just laid on our kids 
here in the states to stave off 
the use of guns on playground 
bullies.

<offtopic>Gad, we have a mess here and 
we are reacting with technology 
and draconian rules instead of 
thinking.

"We are swinging God in a cradle..."</offtopic>

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:55 AM
To: xml-dev
Subject: Re: Request for a poll: (was RE: Datatypes vs anarchy)


From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@i...>

>I love the analogy.  But unless we want a
>war here, the American baiting is kind
>of worthless

Oh, for once I wasn't slagging off at Americans!

The analogy was American trains using imperial measures (track sizes,
parts):
adopting metric won't make the train stop.

Sorry for being obscure, Len.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe


------------------------------------------------------------------
The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS
<http://www.oasis-open.org>

The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/

To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word
"unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...

• Prev by Date: RE: A simple guy with a simple problem
• Next by Date: RE: A simple guy with a simple problem
• Previous by thread: Re: Request for a poll: (was RE: Datatypes vs anarchy)
• Next by thread: RE: Request for a poll: (was RE: Datatypes vs anarchy)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread