Olin Elliott wrote:
I agree. I often don't participate in conversation threads online
> (including on this forum) for precisely that reason, because they seem to
> degenerate too easily into name calling and other nastiness. I like having
> a moderated forum, but the problem is always how to dr
On May 6, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 5, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
>>>
>>> IAAMOAC is his original motto, at least seven years old (see
>>> http://www.davidbrin.com/parting.html but I think I remember him
>>> using
>>> it before that).
>>
Ray wrote:
>
> On May 5, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
> >
> > IAAMOAC is his original motto, at least seven years old (see
> > http://www.davidbrin.com/parting.html but I think I remember him using
> > it before that).
>
> He certainly did use it earlier than that. The earliest messag
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Dave Land wrote:
> On May 6, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
>> I bet William is glad his last name is what it is rather than
>> anything beginning with the previous letter of the alphabet . . .
>
> What would be wrong with the name Foodall?
>
> Dave
>
> I GET it
On May 6, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> I bet William is glad his last name is what it is rather than
> anything beginning with the previous letter of the alphabet . . .
What would be wrong with the name Foodall?
Dave
I GET it Maru
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I agree. I often don't participate in conversation threads online (including
on this forum) for precisely that reason, because they seem to degenerate too
easily into name calling and other nastiness. I like having a moderated forum,
but the problem is always how to draw the line between moder
Some of the criticism I get on a forum supposedly dedicated to intellectual
analysis of a theoretical book has so often degenerated into name calling that
they set up a special Flame Wars thread just for that. Did it work? No.
So be prepared to filter out a lot of "Fascist!" "Well, you're a Li
The bogus criticism is just part of the process. It is only by opening
ourselves, our institutions and our leaders to the full range of criticism --
the overwhelming majority of which will always be useless or worse than useless
-- that we can insure that the critical small percentage of necess
I bet William is glad his last name is what it is rather than
anything beginning with the previous letter of the alphabet . . .
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Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>
> (...) And there is always the Fermi
> paradox to keep in mind. Back in the 1960s some of us wondered if
> the reason there were no other advanced civilizations out there is
> that they blew themselves up with nuclear weapons or something like
> that. Now there is an
Dan M. wrote:
>
> Now, having said that, global warming means things will change. And,
> change means there will be some big losers. So, localized problems,
> oceans rising 1 meter in 100 years, etc. should be expected.
> Millions will die, probably. But, natural disasters and wars aside,
>
>If this can happen in an advanced European country how many thousands of
sex-slave basements must there be in a backward country like the USA?
That's exactly my point. Worldwide there must be thousans of undiscovered
basements.
c
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Dan M. wrote:
>
> One thing that makes me skeptical about this is that I've been
> hearing about an impending world catastrophy, mass starvation, etc.
> within the next 25 years for the last 40 years. I've read books on
> the subject. When I was younger, I believed them.
>
/me too. My favouri
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