> 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...
on 3/11/10 1:03 PM, Michael Snow at wikipe...@verizon.net wrote: > 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 "Sidetracked" from what? And, how does this discussion interfere with your work, or your day, Michael? MR _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
