From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 5:59: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE4137B405 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542B43E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0003.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.3] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17pTYY-0007Rh-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:58:50 -0700 Message-ID: <3D808F4C.AF4A5796@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:57:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lee Cc: nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020911140623.A45696-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <3D7FC334.396A9F12@mindspring.com> <20020911214015.51f915a0.yid@softhome.net> <3D7FF31D.642948C9@mindspring.com> <20020912045213.0915f496.yid@softhome.net> <3D8084D8.29DEE733@mindspring.com> <20020912083902.585184e1.yid@softhome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joshua Lee wrote: > > Yes, it is; but the philosophical ramifications of the incompleteness > > theorem are what started the current thread. > > For some reason I don't remember that, maybe it was when the thread was > in -hackers or something? Neil's fiorst posting was a followup to one in which Dave and I were (effectively) dicussing the incompleteness theorem: > > Well, that and Dave Hayes pype, poking it with a stick any time > > it looked to be settling down, just for the sheer joy Dave > > gets from being a luddite and making people waste effort > > I'm not sure if his opinion on the moderation of mailing lists is a > luddite one. I think he's not against the technology of it as much as he > is against the censoring of trolls in general, whether manual or > automatic. It's antisocial. Being antisocial against a society whose goal is to progress the state of the art is a form of Luddism. > > that could be better spent on things he opposes. Luckily, > > this thread has not taken a lot of attention or time to > > type, from my perspective; since it's started, I've also > > written about 13,000 lines of code. > > What project, may I ask? An embedded system which uses FreeBSD as its OS, and is network related. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message