Brian J Mingus wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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...
on 3/11/10 1:03 PM, Michael Snow at wikipedia@verizon.net 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 here. Thank you.
--Michael Snow
"Sidetracked" from what? And, how does this discussion interfere with your work, or your day, Michael?
MR