Without in the least wishing to feed the trolls, I may as well say that I never mind these digressions. I wouldn't want them to take over the forum, but the occasional hot-blooded off-topic food fight is at worst mildly entertaining and at best gives me an excuse to emit a superior smirk as I stay out of it. And sometimes someone actually makes a GOOD point, at which point I may contribute.
It's better, of course, when the dialogue leaves out the hostility. But I can't control that, and my feelings aren't delicate. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* A recent Pentagon scenario-building exercise suggested a sudden breakdown in the North Atlantic circulation, producing a dramatic regional cooling. A disaster film called The Day After Tomorrow, released a couple of weeks ago, suggests an apocalyptic future not foreseen by most serious climatologists. In fact, we do not know whether global warming will continue to increase on a steady ramp or possibly cross the threshold of some nonlinear process. We're in the middle of a large uncontrolled experiment on the only planet we have. -Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of "Science" [Vol 304, Issue 5677, 1565, 11 June 2004] */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 09:53 I think I also triggered this by trying to show why we (the industry) need to pay attention to Asimov's laws of robotics. --- On 5/3/2023 9:36 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > I seeded the discussion with the idea that our technology has impacts beyond > the tech itself. Had I thought about it I could have easily intuited that it > would go political and end up exactly where we are at. That wasn’t the > intent but was the outcome. > > I repent in dust and ashes. > >> --- On May 2, 2023, at 10:56 PM, Darren Evans-Young <dar...@ua.edu> wrote: >> Haven't had to remind folks of this in a awhile. This list is for the >> discussion of IBM Mainframes. >> Not political discussions/opinions and other worthless sh*t that I >> and others really don't care about. If it continues, I will start removing >> people from the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
