[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-12 Thread Anthony
If the Internet wins, shouldn't they give the prize to the inventor of the Internet? Is Al Gore even allowed to win twice? On Mar 10, 2010 6:32 PM, "Thomas Dalton" wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like argum

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-12 Thread Tim Starling
Marc Riddell wrote: >> Tim Starling wrote: > >> 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 >> > "Bizarre"? See beyond the visible, Tim. I'

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-12 Thread MZMcBride
Michael Snow 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Ray Saintonge
Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > >> 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Snow
Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > >> Brian J Mingus wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow >> wrote: >>> Can we discuss something else, rather than having the list get sidetracked into geopolitical debates

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brian wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > >> Brian J Mingus wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow > >wrote: >> > >> >> Brian J Mingus wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling < >> tst

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > Brian J Mingus wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow >wrote: > > > >> Brian J Mingus wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling < > tstarl...@wikimedia.org > >>> wrote: > >>> > Give the Nobel Pe

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Snow
Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > >> Brian J Mingus wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling >> wrote: >>> Give the Nobel Peace Prize to DARPA for designing the Internet. And they've made so many other excell

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Marc Riddell
> Brian J Mingus wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling >> 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, th

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > Brian J Mingus wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling >wrote: > > > >> Give the Nobel Peace Prize to DARPA for designing the Internet. And > >> they've made so many other excellent contributions to peace, like > >> unmanne

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Snow
Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling 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 reaso

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus >wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton >>> wrote: > >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm > >>> > >>> We're the biggest non-pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Marc Riddell
> on 3/11/10 12:10 PM, Tim Starling at tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: > 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 > "Bizarre"? See beyond th

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Starling
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm >>> >>> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like >>> argument for us to ge

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-11 Thread Ray Saintonge
Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton > >>> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like >>> argument for us to get the prize money to me. >>> >> The Internet is defi

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton >wrote: > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm > > > > We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like > > argument for us to get the prize money to me. > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 March 2010 23:40, Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm >> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like >> argument for us to get the prize money to me. > The Internet is def

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-10 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm >> >> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like >> argument for us to get the prize money to me. >> > > The In

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-10 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm > > We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like > argument for us to get the prize money to me. > The Internet is definitely worthy of the prize as a whole but I'm not

[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like argument for us to get the prize money to me. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists