Your errors about me in your book.

[alex wright]

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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 at openbuddha.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, he’s a precious celebrity.
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Ted Smith <tedks at 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 at 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.
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