On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Ryan Simpkins <p...@ryansimpkins.com> wrote:
> When I asked this question I simply had no idea it would turn in to such a > deeply emotional debate. This is arguably one of the most important > discussions to have ever taken place on this list. I want you all to know I > have read every single post and considered them all carefully. Every post has > been incredibly valuable and filled with meaningful point of view. Every > comment was needed (except sjansens, what is wrong with that guy?). I have a > message I'd like you all to read: What have you got against sjansen? I found his posts clean and refreshing, not entirely unlike soap-on-a-rope after wrestling with pigs. > > Mormon, Christian, Jew, Atheist, Buddhist, Humanist, Hindu, Muslim, and other > isims, ists, and religious or non-religious persons. Here this! > > The United States Government has likely been tracking the following > information for all Americans: > * Who you have telephoned. > * Your location during the call. > * The length of that call. > * Who called you. > * What you said via text (presumably). > * Certain aspects of your Internet activities > * Possibly some of your private communications, up to and including phone > calls, e-mails, videos, etc. Fortunately, I haven't been conferring with Nazis or anything. At most, they may have some of my musings about philosophy and/or bacon. Mmmm, bacon. > The government has been doing this irrespective of your religious points of > view, and in some cases possibly because of them. Do not let those points of > view stop you from applying the same reasoned thinking you brought to the > great top post flame fests of 2010, or the "language wars" of 2008, or even > the heady days of the "editor battles" long ago (vim won, by the way). Turn on > those geek brains and start thinking about how to either solve this problem, > or please go blow away your Ubuntu partition and install Windows 8. If you > can't see why this is important then NO ROOT FOR YOU! > > There is a great deal of room for people of all religious points of view and > walks of life. I participate in the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable. An > organization that is dedicated to the understanding and cooperation of all > religious beliefs and backgrounds. Every major faith in the area participates, > as does the LDS church, including most of the minor faiths. What I have > learned will shock you: We are all exactly alike. That is precisely what the Illuminati would like you to think. But, all in all, you're just another brick in the wall. > It is fine if you point to scripture, philosophy, or science as your moral > guide so long as you come to this basic conclusion: We need to work together > to stand up for what we collectively feel is right. Before we can do that we > need to narrowly decide if the United States Government is right or wrong in > the case at hand. That certainly takes communication. It also takes humility. > Here is a helpful phrase to repeat 10 times a day: "My root partition may be > corrupted. My memory may be throwing errors. Someone may have chmod'd all my > binaries 0400. It is okay to be wrong, so long as I can fix it. I have a > rescue disk." > > This list, right here, is one of the last totally open community based public > forums with a culture of rational thought and deep analysis in our area. You > all collectively decide what will fly and what will not. I do have one > suggestion: Please remember that ~500 people will get your message. Therefore, > I trust you will be considerate of their point of view and potential > sensitivity to petty argument and lack of reasoned analysis. Geeks simply > won't tolerate it. > > - note - > Please do not respond to this thread unless you include ALL of the following > words in the post: sjansen, bacon, Nazis, soap on a rope, Illuminati, a lyric > from any Pink Floyd song. Be careful what you ask for! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
