On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:37:41AM -0500, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote:

  James already proved himself a racist earlier in the discussion when he
  mentioned that he could only find "a number of black felons who should
  have been killed off long ago" while googling a person's name. "Black"
  was, of course, completely irrelevant, but he nevertheless found it
  important to add.

Yeah but my point was James (and multiple others) were ever thus, and yet if
you catch them focussed on something useful they are capable, even gifted
some of them.  A guy can say a bunch of things on political rambling, its
not like you'd expect political uniformity or political correctness, or
mellow, nuanced balanced views out of a bunch of crypto-anarchists: the
political side of this list could always be like a USENET flame fest at its
worst.  Flame-retardent underwear and 'n' button at the ready.  Read the
bits that interest you, skip the rest.  It just amuses me, there goes (some
person prone to such rants) again, on some pet topic or highly non-PC, or
offensive to sensitive ears diatribe, smirk, time to use the 'n' button
(next email).

If you dont like the noise, create some signal is another concept (and dont
fan the noise).