On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net>wrote:
> 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. > > --Michael Snow > You believe that my reply to Tim is degenerate? That is offensive. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
