Brian J Mingus wrote: > 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. > It's not that those discussions wouldn't be relevant to have on this list, and periodically people try and encourage others to move them to a more public setting. It's that when this list continues to show a tendency for conversation to degenerate, as it just did, then it's quite hard to persuade people that they should want to have their discussions here.
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