OT: It's arrived!

Simon Cozens simon at simon-cozens.org
Fri Nov 9 12:34:27 GMT 2007


Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Clay Shirky IIRC made an interesting point that those so desirous of
> attention will seek it even when that attn is increasingly negative:
> it's better to have *some* attention than no attention even if it's
> negatively directed. This is probably what's going on here.

The great but sadly not sufficiently late Margaret Thatcher said something
rather similar *and* proposed a good solution to it.

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#define struct union /* Great space saver */


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