From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 22:11:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6637616A404 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:11:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E383213C45E for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:11:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so1120162muf for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:11:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=b7JppwlZRtaQXwUrk81xnt7vM9PT7Cbq1FfntQ/AIFycGPs2myyywmKdBHRHmK3BvHSJw6CRivXDO8J98tMz2ss7Ux8W4LlhHmJyLhOzCMq2OYfadDG0qhntCgBWPhVno600WIl/4gzr5GyvKB6zIcJFUWXdKpn0gX7CkS8VSfo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RhlPxWRcdsbxugXMTV6V+FFQfK9YfR8wwwRKKnohMgb2nduOYNbl/sjcZ9cTD48btTGT9h5MC9lVo1qJHWg+OOcYgK5TaRc9NWq5sODO7KS4eckTr1enr3vT9zrpm7UDPUttZWivsoYCU7GxyX1ly1Z6zVkokLaLhGPPDKAq9Ac= Received: by 10.82.100.1 with SMTP id x1mr6669395bub.1177711871383; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.148.12 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:11:11 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Bart Silverstrim" In-Reply-To: <770D13E9-D603-4749-A09F-6BC66F0EFFE8@chrononomicon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070424145433.734761db.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070425083153.1cfa3a38.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070425124847.GB19653@saltmine.radix.net> <20070425085531.5998728b.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <66681924-B13F-4E91-96BB-AE6FB92CEBF0@cteresource.org> <462F5ECF.1040508@lvor.halvorsen.cc> <20070425191503.GB81828@demeter.hydra> <20070425192904.GA15766@saltmine.radix.net> <770D13E9-D603-4749-A09F-6BC66F0EFFE8@chrononomicon.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:11:13 -0000 On 27/04/07, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > We don't devote time and > resources into being "renaissance people". Human intelligence is hardly limited in that regard. While I do not subscribe to the Colin Wilson theory, the vast majority of people contain so little information it is quite shameful, and the less you learn the harder it is to learn. These arguments about ethics show how truly shallow ethicists bother to think. Wikipedia is a daycare centre which has given out a nearly unlimited number of crayons and is now complaining about children drawing on the walls. It is also a fairly plain example of the cliche of the inmates running the asylum. To assign scholarly status and impute scholarly ethics on such a nonsensical rubbish pile is as silly as taking my arguments here as more than the ranting of a deranged keyboard jockey. What that purported professor did is no more unethical than crapping in somone else's toilet, and to claim other- wise is to elevate it to a king's throne. Once wikipedia (and its ilk) begin to systematically vet contributors for expertise and seriously review articles against fact we can nail them to the wall for political bias. -- --