On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net>wrote:
> Brian J Mingus wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > >> Give the Nobel Peace Prize to DARPA for designing the Internet. And > >> they've made so many other excellent contributions to peace, like > >> unmanned bombers and anti-missile lasers. > >> > >> Seriously, the only reason I can think of that the committee would > >> choose "the internet" as a recipient is if they wanted to make an even > >> more bizarre choice than last year. > >> > >> -- Tim Starling > >> > > I'm actually not sure how unmanned bombers are not a tool for peace given > > our current situation. As Obama noted very eloquently in his Nobel > > acceptance speech even though we may dream of world peace it is not yet a > > reality. The reality is that we have rogue regimes, unstable > international > > relationships, religious wars, insane people who manage to get elected as > > POTUS, etc... > Can we discuss something else, rather than having the list get > sidetracked into geopolitical debates that aren't at all useful to the > work we do? Aside from fantasizing about a share of the prize money, > even the original subject was not especially on-topic for discussion > here. Thank you. > > --Michael Snow > > Yes, hardly anything is relevant for discussion on this list anymore. It happens either on internal WMF mailing lists or IRL. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
