Previously sent right to Joshua Case because ... I'm special... I for one found it an interesting jump off point. I didn't know much about that episode before a few previous posts. If the lines are too narrow this is just a terribly formatted RSS feed.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:40 PM, alex wright <wrightal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I for one found it an interesting jump off point. I didn't know much > about that episode before a few previous posts. If the lines are too > narrow this is just a terribly formatted RSS feed. > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Case <jwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey Al, >> >> You’ve got to have a pretty thick skin to be on a mailing list - >> sometimes people post *several *messages in a row that may be over your >> head, in regards to people or events you have no knowledge of, or just >> plain boring. In these cases it is best to just buddha-up - find your >> delete key and go with the flow. If you really can’t see why the members of >> this particular list might be interested this *particular* “celebrity’s” >> correspondence in this matter — if you truly have “no idea what it is >> about” — then perhaps you should save your comments until you do have some >> inkling of what’s going around you. Then you won’t appear petulant or >> uninformed when you wish to participate rationally at a later time. >> >> Good luck! >> >> >> On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Al Billings <alb...@openbuddha.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, he’s a precious celebrity. >> >> On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Ted Smith <te...@riseup.net> wrote: >> >> It's a forwarded message. It's copied to the list because it's relevant >> to the list, just like the discussion of the book's launch was relevant >> to the list, way back when all of the people complaining about posts >> from Jim Fucking Bell on the CYPHERPUNKS list weren't on said list. >> >> >> Al Billings >> alb...@openbuddha.com >> http://makehacklearn.org >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into > the > machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly > to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a > question." > > -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor > and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable > computer. > > -- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.
