Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:07:34 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 src/share/mk bsd.subdir.mk Message-ID: <20040909003734.GO49572@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040908153512.GA14213@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <200409071519.i87FJe69032699@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040908023006.GS82881@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040908153512.GA14213@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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--4ickEXl+ukcSQ/3E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 8 September 2004 at 9:35:12 -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:00:06PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 7 September 2004 at 15:19:40 +0000, Warner Losh wrote: >>> imp 2004-09-07 15:19:40 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> . Makefile.inc1 >>> share/mk bsd.subdir.mk >>> Log: >>> Although 'Unanimous Consent' appears to be a well defined and used in >>> the US Senate, Canadian Parliament and Australian Senate, it was >>> causing some confusion. >> >> Indeed, including the notion that it's used in the Australian Senate. >> You'll recall the discussions that the South Australian Senate >> understands the term, but they don't use it. To quote the December >> 2003 core report: >> >> - grog reports a discussion with a member of the SA Senate. The term >> "unanimous consent" is not used in Australian politics, and it could >> be interpreted both ways. Any interpretation would be subject to >> quorum requirements. > > <pedant> > Either you had a discussion with a South Australian Senator (i.e., a member > of the Australian Senate elected to represent the state of South Australia) > or you had a discussion with a Member of the Legislative Council. You can't > have had a discussion with a member of the South Australian Senate since the > upper house of the South Australian state parliament isn't called the Senate, > its called the Legislative Council. > </pedant> Indeed. It was Andy Johnstone, advisor to Ian Gilfillan MLC. But I didn't want to confuse the issue by using local terminology. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --4ickEXl+ukcSQ/3E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBP6XOIubykFB6QiMRAoimAJ4rj3dVlsvBeImvQw8gNFT2hqmVuACffbEn 6rvOlFBzMG64B8MAGsW93B0= =OjnH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4ickEXl+ukcSQ/3E--
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