Previously sent right to Joshua Case because ... I'm special... I for one found it an interesting jump off point. I didn't know much about that episode before a few previous posts. If the lines are too narrow this is just a terribly formatted RSS feed. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:40 PM, alex wright <wrightalexw@gmail.com> wrote:

I for one found it an interesting jump off point. I didn't know much about that episode before a few previous posts. If the lines are too narrow this is just a terribly formatted RSS feed.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Case <jwcase@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hey Al,

You’ve got to have a pretty thick skin to be on a mailing list - sometimes people post *several *messages in a row that may be over your head, in regards to people or events you have no knowledge of, or just plain boring. In these cases it is best to just buddha-up - find your delete key and go with the flow. If you really can’t see why the members of this particular list might be interested this *particular* “celebrity’s” correspondence in this matter — if you truly have “no idea what it is about” — then perhaps you should save your comments until you do have some inkling of what’s going around you. Then you won’t appear petulant or uninformed when you wish to participate rationally at a later time.

Good luck!

On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Al Billings <albill@openbuddha.com> wrote:

Yes, he’s a precious celebrity.

On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Ted Smith <tedks@riseup.net> wrote:

It's a forwarded message. It's copied to the list because it's relevant to the list, just like the discussion of the book's launch was relevant to the list, way back when all of the people complaining about posts from Jim Fucking Bell on the CYPHERPUNKS list weren't on said list.

Al Billings albill@openbuddha.com http://makehacklearn.org

-- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

-Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

-- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.