[ExI] nutty discussions?

[Giulio Prisco]

Participating in the nutty discussions on this list has always been fun,
thought provoking, stimulating, mind bending, and I could go on for hours.
I'm proud of being one of many Extropy alumni.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 5:41 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > On Behalf Of John Klos via extropy-chat
> > Subject: Re: [ExI] ANNOUNCEMENT: server migration soon
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> >>... John what do I owe ya?
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> >...Oh, all of the interesting and nutty discussions on here are payment
> enough. I'm happy to help support a wonderfully vibrant and geeky community
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> John
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> Indeed sir?  What nutty discussions?
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> Mahatma Ghandhi has said: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
> then they fight you, then you win.
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> I am at stage two.  Our list serious guy Brent can't stop laughing.  But
> then after stage 3, I shall win, becoming the king of counterfeit TP on the
> Dark Web.  Then as I sit tall on my pile of money, I shall make instructive
> and charitable comments from up there, such as neener neener
> neeeeeeenerrrrr…
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> Remember our own Jeff Davis, used to hang out here a lot in the 1990s,
> always with the big ideas he was.  Sold his house, bet long on BitCoin,
> before the boom.
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> The other day I posted to him: Hey Jeff, haven’t seen you since a year ago
> last summer.  Do post me a recent picture, me lad.
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> He sent this:
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> Now he must hire a coupla fellers to shovel a path thru his money just so
> he can get to his own bathroom.
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> H suffers so, it’s all been so hard on him.  Jeff was the original hippy,
> 1969 Berkeley grad, always with the hair and sandals and the weird clothes
> they used to wear and all that, never had two nickels, but was really good
> at making do with just a little.  Then this happens to him, and now society
> expects him to wear suits and go around like that guy with the top hat in
> the Monopoly game.  The pressure is enormous.
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> The hapful lad deals with it by funding his own X-prize mission to the
> moon.  He asked his aerospace engineers if such a thing is feasible.  His
> own buddy had to answer honestly: I don’t think so.
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> The Israelis did it:
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> https://www.xprize.org/articles/spaceil-moon-orbit
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> Sigh.  If I see him, I will get a bullhorn and call out, Hey Jeff, is
> there enough oxygen up there?  that sorta thing.
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> Speaking of BitCoin, do remember Hal Finney, who was also one of ours.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)
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