<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The homosexuals forever bent the term 'gay'. Too bad - I miss it. Their right.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">But I don't want to see 'elite' become a dirty word. We are two, three, or more standard deviations from the mean on the IQ scale and probably others, and if we don't qualify as elite, no one does (OK disregard the hype there). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">No one in history was ever more wrong than John Locke. Big advantages involve genetics and I hope that soon everyone will accept that. Do you think that most billionaires, self-made, are just like the rest of us? They earned it, most of them. With elite skills. Get over it, some of you (no, not you, the other world outside).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:31 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:02 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The telescope is only a casualty if the money is spent somewhere else. <br>
If astronomers are patient, they may not have to settle for the second <br>
best locale.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### So any harm is the astronomers' fault, after all. </div><div><br></div><div>OK.</div><div> -----------------</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> ### It takes two sides to have a game. If the umpire says they lost <br>
> but they still go up a mountain and harass the winners, they are no <br>
> sportsmen, and they should not be treated as such. What we see there <br>
> is not a game, it's a dirty fight. --------------<br>
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Game or dirty fight, they are winning this round because federal law <br>
is on their side:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Really?</div><div><br></div><div> OK.</div><div><br></div><div>----------------------</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
We must reconcile with the native Hawaiians or risk violating our own <br>
laws to remove them from the mountain by force. That is the reality of <br>
the situation for the time being.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### "We" need to reconcile with violent lawbreakers?</div><div><br></div><div>OK.</div><div><br></div><div>So let me ask you just one political question:</div><div><br></div><div>On whose side are you?</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div>
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