From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 4 11:18:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87C537B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409ED43E6E for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0634.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.44.124] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17mejN-00037i-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:18:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3D764E30.FEE9F60@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 11:17:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hayes Cc: "Neal E. Westfall" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <200209041142.g84BgY182928@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave Hayes wrote: > >> > There are people who can not do this. I would prefer to have the > >> > contributions of those people, than the participation of the trolls. > >> > If I must lose one or the other, let it be the trolls. > >> > >> I feel exactly the opposite. If someone can't hit a key on the > >> keyboard and render the troll powerless, I don't want to be held > >> hostage to their choices. Good riddance. > > > > You're not held hostage to their choices. Feel free to subscribe > > to other lists as well. > > So I can return to a hostage state? No thanks. I fail to see how this returns you to a hostage state ("you know"; you won't enlighten everyone; it's much more fun to suffer in the knowledge that you're the only one suffering in the knowledge, than it is to explain how having to subscribe to a second mailing list to get postings from assholes holds you hostage...). > >> Well, people would focus on not being rich. Then they'd be unhappy. > >> What good is a BMW if you cant brag to your friends because they > >> all have one too? ;) > > > > The same good it was when you *could* brag: it is a means of > > getting from point A to point B. > > Not exactly the same good, you miss the fun in bragging. A: "I have a new beamer!" B: "I don't care." A: "It goes 0-60 in 5.9!" B: "Don't you work down main street, where the highest speed limit is 45?" A: "It has bucket seats with built in butt-warmers!" B: "You live in California, where the weather varies between luke warm and warm" A: "It has 50 more horse poser than your car!" B: "What kind of gas mileage does it get?" A: "You're no damn fun at all, you know?!?" B: "And you're an idiot who just spent $65,000 to get from point A to point B..." -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message