Might I add, I nearly choked on my proverbial cereal reading the heading 'abortion should be self-limiting since it cleans the gene pool' or some such crap from rclough, and was about to fire back until I realized that provocation is the *purpose* of trolling. So - I consider him a troll.
On Friday, February 1, 2013 11:24:10 AM UTC+11, Pierz wrote: > > I agree with you Russell. It's nice to have new thinkers contributing > ideas as I was getting bored with Weinberg vs Clark, but at a certain point > this group will lose interest for me completely if 90% of the threads are > about stuff unrelated to the original 'everything' list concept. It's not > the anything list! > > On Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:53:38 AM UTC+11, Russell Standish wrote: >> >> Might I remind everybody that the purpose of the everything-list is to >> discuss ensemble theories of everything. If you want to know what that >> is, please consult Wei Dei's description >> http://www.weidai.com/everything.html >> >> Granted, this does touch on a lot of topics, ranging over fundamental >> science, philosophy and even aspects of religion, but is not relevant >> to the current gun control debates, or a move to assert moral values >> in our households (whose morals?), just two of the topics discussed >> this morning on the list. >> >> The list is deliberately left free-ranging and unmoderated. That has >> been its strength, and the list has been remarkably troll-free. But >> can I please ask everybody to keep the discussion more or less on >> topic, so that the list remains relevant. >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> Principal, High Performance Coders >> Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] >> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
