[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Michael Snow]

Brian J Mingus wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>wrote:
>   
>> Brian J Mingus wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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