Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

Vadim Lobanov
2006-09-30T04:37:30Z

On Friday 29 September 2006 20:36, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 20:31, Vadim Lobanov wrote:
> >On Friday 29 September 2006 16:53, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Friday 29 September 2006 19:25, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> >what's an umbrella?
> >>
> >> See what I mean folks? Underpriviledged is what Portlanders are. I
> >> mean Shirley Seattle doesn't hog all the rain on the left coast.
> >
> >No, not at all. It's simply that we Seattle-ites just whine about it the
> >loudest. It's nothing more than a ploy to scare away the tourists. :)
>
> You don't have to, the weather does that. The std joke question for anyone
> from a Northern CA market tv station who goes to Seattle to interview for
> a job at a larger market tv station is: Was it raining? And the answer
> is always yes. I never saw it fail. :)

Ah, our weather is honestly not all that bad. In fact, judging from the
various sources out there, Seattle actually gets less rainfall overall than
Portland. (ex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle,_Washington#Climate) The
worst part is the 8-9 months of constantly-overcast and dreary weather in the
fall, winter, and spring; but, to balance that out, our summers are very,
very nice. And yes, we even get droughts every so often around here! :)

> Reminds me of a fellow I worked with back in Iowa City, studying to be a
> lawyer (about 50 years ago) who spent most of WWII in London. In two
> years the sun came out for 3 days. He wears the scares from the sunburn
> he got to this day if he hasn't passed, he was about 20 years older than
> I, and I'm 72 next week.

Yikes! No sun for that long? I couldn't do it. I'd probably go bonkers (or
even more so...).

-- Vadim Lobanov