Subject: RE: General Debt Strike From: John Anderson <panic-AT-semiosix.com> Date: 06 Mar 2003 13:53:08 +0200 On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:53, Kristopher Barrett wrote: > >> The half dozen or so conservatives on the list went absolutely apeshit > >> over my notion. I did apologize for the crosspost ... but some of them > >> are still flaming me in private email. > > > > What were they saying? Talk about a different perspective and all... > > A range of stuff from Limbaughesque quips to the usual love it or leave it > crap. Leave it? Where to? There ain't no more wilderness no more. All the continents are fully booked these days, so we can't even get in a bathtub and sail off across the ocean. > It does seem to have stopped. I think my lack of response other than an > apology for the accidental post took the wind out of the easily offendeds' > sails. It isn't any fun to badmouth someone who just ignores it as random > noise. Most of the folks there are way more interested in building large > telescopes, rather than political debate....go figure..... Lots of programmers (I'm a programmer, so I'm allowed to say this) prefer the strict rules of computing to the fuzziness of real people with real emotions. Go figure. > I didn't bother to save the posts ... they had little real content other > than some form of "your words anger me". And realistically, they did have > cause to bitch...that post didn't belong there, and I do wish I hadn't > accidently sent it to them. I reckon most people active on lists & newsgroups have done something like that at least once. I'm sure there's value in seeing it as one's unconscious acting against one's rational mind. bye John
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