On 5 Jan 2005, at 17:00, Scott Nelson wrote:
Can this be taken off list?
This conversation long since lost any relevance to the wiki project.
On 5 Jan 2005, at 18:04, Scott Nelson wrote:
Unless the foundation is considering getting into the
radioactive
and/or nuclear weapon business? The French certainly do very well with
it, and you could probably fund the entire Foundation with a couple of
sales for quite some time.
--
Scott Nelson
Living in a nuclear free zone.
Scott --
Do you think that publicly lobbing politically loaded insults at "the
other side" is a good way of getting people to stop arguing/defending
their political POV in public?
You can ask for this to go off-list in a neutral fashion.
You initially did that, fair enough. (NB: you and everyone's welcome to
post to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ropers ).
But you then turned around and threw a biggie into the opposite
direction. This effectively makes it impossible for the other side to
gracefully end a political thread (to the escalation of which I
probably contributed, which may not have been wise). The other side
will feel that if they don't defend their view, then you've won and
they've lost. This is like a partisan talk host who finishes with an
extreme partisan insult and then says: "Sorry. We've JUST run out of
time." and proceeds to signal for the targeted party to be cut out and
taken off the air. If you were the butt of such a "joke", would you
take it?
a not holier than thou (really)
--
Jens Ropers