From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 23:59:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29E637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEC443F93 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfk2f.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.208.79] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19StO8-0006Zh-00; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:59:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3EF15EE7.A414AD5A@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:57:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan K Hubbard References: <96EF329E-A1C1-11D7-AE42-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a47554bd7cb27fbab1f4d8b9d802b27f85a7ce0e8f8d31aa3f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drawing graphics on terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 06:59:53 -0000 Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > This one's a bit like government. Everyone has an opinion about how it > should work or what it could be doing better, but very few people want > to actually get involved in changing it. :-) It's not so much that, as that there are so many politicians waiting in the wings to tack pork and unfunded mandates onto the bill before they're willing to let it onto the floor ("Oh! The devfs must support persistence before we let it in, even though almost no one relies on that feature being there!", etc.). It would be nicer if there could just be a land grant to one or two people over that area, and whatever they said goes, if you are inside those borders ("Bob and Tom own the installer; you want to work on it, talk to one of them; you don't like a change that's happened, talk to them; if they're unresponsive, be prepared to have to find 66% of people to agree with you, because we're going to cut them a lot of slack, once they own the area"). Changing a single city ordinance is really impossible, if the county, state, federal government, the UN, Green Peace, and Amnesty International all insist that they have to approve the ordinance before you're allowed to put it into effect. 8-(. -- Terry