On Monday 11 June 2018 04:16:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 11 June 2018 04:54:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
This directly leads to the question: are polititians realy humans or are in realty some kind of highly evolved parasite?
I tend to think of most of them as parasites. They con us into electing them, then fatten up at the public trough, and usually stuff their pockets with lifetime pensions before we vote them out. By that performance, I'd call them a parasite. Most have never done a good days work in their lives. I can think of one or 2 exceptions, but that gets into personalities and is a heck of a good way to start a fight. This list is contentious enough w/o that.
I believe that we all know what's really going on, 'nuff sed. We just differ on interpretation, and on how to solve what's wrong. This world is a lot weirder than the one that I grew up in, that's for sure.
Free software is a good way to go. I don't know if it really can make the world a better place, but at least it seems inherently less harmful. And if nothing else, it's a good diversion, and can open up new opportunities for our pursuits and research and other work.
So even if I might not agree with everything everybody says on the mailing list, I still need to pick your brains. And mostly we're all just trying to help one another.
I think we can all agree on some kind of amorphous THAT. That's why we're here, not politics or religion or anything dogmatic. None of us wants to mess up a good thing.
Bill