Brian J Mingus wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>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.
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