From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 15: 5:26 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 C080937B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684C643E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0015.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.15] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17pc5M-00032O-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:05:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3D810F58.6A0AD88A@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:04:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hayes Cc: Joshua Lee , nwestfal@directvinternet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <200209122018.g8CKIC159777@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: > Terry Lambert writes: > > Well, that and Dave Hayes pype, poking it with a stick any time > > it looked to be settling down, just for the sheer joy Dave > > gets from being a luddite > > I'm a luddite if I suggest people grow up and learn to tune out > the bad apples? Astounding. No, you are a Luddite if you suggest elevation of individual rights over those of the group, to a point which would result in the desctruction of the group AND the group whose destruction is under discussion is one which promotes technological change. > > and making people waste effort > > I'm glad I have that much power over you. Of course you are. It is your nature to seek such power (and to ignore such distinctions as the use of third person perfect). > > Luckily, this thread has not taken a lot of attention or time to > > type, from my perspective; since it's started, I've also written > > about 13,000 lines of code. > > No one said you should be waiting by your mailbox for the next > round. I daresay most of us have gotten work done in parallel > with this entire debacle. I daresay that the debacle is some people's idea of "work product". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message