----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: Re: Egg on my face (was Re: Treatment Of Prisoners)
> In a message dated 1/17/02 3:29:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > << Not that I want you to leave, mind you. > > And if you do not want to spend a lot of time researching before you ost -- > just stay out of that intellectual stuff about brains, QM, free will and the > likes. (That is what I do, because, quite frankly, I have no idea what they > are talking about). >> > > I'll second that.... I research when I can or need to. If I don't know, I > ask. If I get something wrong, I'm (usually) politely informed by someone on > the list. I also try to provide net links and researched info to help > ongoing conversations when I can. It helps me feel like I'm contributing > ;-). > > And I *do* apologize if I ever make a mistake. I've apologized at least 2 > times in the past 6 months for either misunderstanding what someone was > talking about (Jeroen and John Giorgis), or 1 or 2 for accidently posting > misinformation (ummmm posted yesterday, apologized today, oops ;) ). > Considering that's probably less than 1% of my posts, IMHO, it's a decent > track record. > > For me, half the fun of being on this list has been learning new things in a > variety of fields. The math stuff is, however, stil WAY over my head. Isn't > that what we have calculators for? > > Of course, it would be nice if the list were on-topic more :) I'm going to > do something about that over the next few days, myself. The interview with > DB on Art Bell covered a very wide range of topics. (I've been *really* > enjoying it) As I have time, I'm planning to try to post a Brin interview > comment here or there and see what people's reactions are. > If you dont like the topics, post about something you do like. Make the list what you want it to be. Thats why I spend a lot of posts making dumb jokes. The list was once a *lot* of *fun*. Someday that fun factor will return. xponent Lets Talk About Guns Maru rob <G>
