From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 9 13:26:52 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 8E5E537B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3735443E42 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0088.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.88] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17oV7P-0005fr-00; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:26:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7D03C6.FA44EA18@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:25:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hayes Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <200209092018.g89KI5134038@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> 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 Dave Hayes wrote: > >> Thing is, they are still arbitrary. ;) > > > > Perhaps individually. On average, though, they are not, and > > that's really the only useful place to measure them, since > > measuring them elsewhere would be... arbitrary. > > The average of an arbitrary measure is still arbitrary. ;) What about the average of a non-arbitrary measure of arvitrary values? > >> > Exactly. You solution is the same as a childs, and works about as > >> > well, overall, which is to say "not at all, as a long term approach". > >> > >> I thought the simplest solution to a problem was the best? ;) > > > > Childish and Simple is not an identity relationship. > > You are actually going to argue that "ignoring trolls" isn't the > simplest answer? Yes. It fails to fit all the facts. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message