OH MY! I can't believe what I am seeing here. Infighting between metric supporters over issues of minor insignificance. I can assure you folks, you will not see any infighting between imperial supporters on the BWMA site. Can you imagine for once what message this sends to others, both the non-committed and to the opposition?
This forum, I don't believe, is meant to be a battleground for this type of issue. Let's end it now and any disagreements be argued out privately. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2003-12-06 21:04 Subject: [USMA:27786] Re: USMA membership > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:42:49 > James Frysinger wrote: > >Well put, Carl. > > > >Indeed, the economic principles of a public good are involved here. Further, > >to believe that information is free is not only naive but it has never been > >generally correct. The existence of some free information does not imply that > >all information is or should be free. > > > >Jim > >... > ??? And may I respectfully inquire what you guys are meaning with this 'public good' thing, please? > > In my dictionary, public good takes precedence over ANY other thing. This, *to me* is a Christian principle *I* would always abide by. In other words, I really don't care about things costing money or not if there could be a better good for people!!! > > What I mean is, if I see something would be benefitial to others *WHO CARES* if it cost ME even thousands of dollars???? I'm not selfish (and please, I'm not accusing ANYONE of being selfish, by the way, before any of you jump on my throat for saying this, ok?!). I have NO qualms whatsoever to partake the little I have or know with others! This is an integral part of who I am or what I believe in! Unless doing so would be illegal, of course! > > Anyhow, I'm really tired of all this wrangling of having my intentions been blown way out of proportion and of continuing name calling and stuff like that. So, this is probably the last I'll speak on this subject. Besides I see no added benefit of continuing this discussion. > > So, let's call it a day, or truce, or whatever, we all need some peace here, shall we? (Thanks...) > > Marcus > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! > Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus > >
