My perspective is: Politics is philosophy, but with a lot of emotion...
On 5/3/2023 10:25 AM, Bob Bridges wrote:
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.
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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.
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