On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > > 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. > I've decided that this list is no longer useful so I have decided to unsubscribe. It's been fun. Cheers. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
