Stop it! [was Re: ergonomics, etc.]

2001-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
We picked up our daughter yesterday. I am just now of wading through a ton of e-mail. The tone of this thread is pretty bad. Too much noise relative to the signal. It's too late to point fingers at its origins. So for now let us just stop it. No more recriminations. Canada is bad. Nader

Re: Stop it! [was Re: ergonomics, etc.]

2001-03-25 Thread Brad DeLong
We picked up our daughter yesterday. I am just now of wading through a ton of e-mail. The tone of this thread is pretty bad. Too much noise relative to the signal. It's too late to point fingers at its origins. So for now let us just stop it. No more recriminations. Canada is bad. Nader

Re: Re: Stop it! [was Re: ergonomics, etc.]

2001-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
Brad, that 3 percent of the vote was enough to sink the Gore campaign is a sad commentary on what the Democrats had to offer. With regard to voting for Nader at no cost to Gore, Nader voters in California certainly had no effect and knew it before hand. With regard to the dimes worth of

Re: Re: Re: Stop it! [was Re: ergonomics, etc.]

2001-03-25 Thread jdevine
Brad, that 3 percent of the vote was enough to sink the Gore campaign is a sad commentary on what the Democrats had to offer. With regard to voting for Nader at no cost to Gore, Nader voters in California certainly had no effect and knew it before hand. right! It's like those Democrats who

Re: Re: Re: Stop it! [was Re: ergonomics, etc.]

2001-03-25 Thread Colin Danby
Given that Brad has a cogent critique that he is willing to explain and unpack in response to challenges, this is yet another abuse of moderating authority. I have no idea what this list is for any more, save idle chat among the like-minded. Every time a discussion gets into any critical depth,

Re: Stop it! [was Re: ergonomics, etc.]

2001-03-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I agree that Brad has a cogent critique. The problem is that he has repeated it any number of times. I myself just made the mistake of responding. I was wrong. I don't mind disagreement all. I probably don't agree with one percent of what David S. believes, except -- from what I infer from