On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:17 AM, cyrano cyrano.fawkes@gmail.com wrote:
Mike, I don't know how's the political landscape is in the USA, but you would say that there is few significative corruption and collusion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_by_country#Rankings
The U.S. is below most of Europe, and Qatar, but we beat France! (The rankings at the link is the Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International; as suggested by its name, its based on the perception of corruption as drawn from surveys rather than any empirical measurement.)
Finland finished on the bronze, behind Denmark and New Zealand?!!!
The "fix is in"!!!
On the surface this is a very frivolous post. Funnily enough I have a serious point I have been nursing along for a while. Any list moderators listening? There are times when the mailing list itself can be a source of infighting and internal politics. I submit this is not one of them, and as such, I think modified rules to the soft moderation rules should be adopted. Blatant trolling should get a "one strike and you are on hard moderation" response, and monthly moderation limits should be lifted entirely. We really are on war footing. Not bean-bags at 50 yards footing. We need to sort things out, and more talk is a good thing, not a bad thing.