[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Brian J Mingus]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>wrote:

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

You believe that my reply to Tim is degenerate? That is offensive.