<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:09 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Aw shit, I did quote him by mistake. I thought I deleted that. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And you quoted me not only on that post but on this one too! And remember you claim even the first iteration was worthless. I'm not sure of the math but I guess that make your post 2^9 times worthless, or would it be 9! worthless? Try for 10.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></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"><div dir="auto">Well: I look forward to him invalidating my argument because of this mistake.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 08:55 Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</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="auto">JOHN YOU ARE NESTING QUOTES TOO. How daft are you? Are you literally mentally disturbed? Look, I'll play your game, I won't quote your stupid shit. Anyone interested will have to go back and look themselves (note to reader: don't, it's not worth it, just trust me on this one.) How are you possibly arguing with people for nesting quotes when you are doing it yourself?!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Your next argument will be "why are you disagreeing with me if we're on the same email list?"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">PLEASE shut the fuck up. Please? :)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 07:31 John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 9:17 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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 style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Patience is a virtue, and so is tolerance. Also, no shouting please. </div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">And incredibly you've taken me up on my invitation and generated another iteration, and so you too have just REPEATED EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THE VERY POST YOU CLAIM HAS NO VALUE!. A libertarian would not pressure somebody to stop promoting ideas he didn't like, he'd either have the courage to debate them or simply ignore posts from authors he did not think have anything worthwhile to say; but there aren't many libertarians on the Extropian list anymore and so you and SR Ballard just want to make the bad man stop. But feel free to make another iteration and repeat the post you're complaining about word for word yet again, we've already got 7 layers of nested quotes, let's try for 8.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Never called for in this group.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">NEVER? Mr. Newbie, I believe I know more about the history of this group than you do.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><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 class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:09 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">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"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:54 PM SR Ballard vi extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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="auto"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>I did not repeat any words you wrote, except incidentally.<br><br></i><div dir="ltr"><i>SR Ballard</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">And you've repeated EVERY SINGLE WORD I WROTE YET AGAIN! Would you care to try for a third iteration?</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Apr 18, 2020, at 9:09 AM, John Clark vi extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 9:59 AM SR Ballard vi<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a </span> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i></i></span><i>I have to agree. </i><div><i>If I want to compare the deaths, a quick google search for the pandemic news will make the same comparison for <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>me.</i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">If my words were worthless then why did both you and Bill take the time out of your busy lives <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>to <b>REPEAT EVERY SINGLE WORD I WROTE?!</b></font><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><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="auto"><div>I’m sure all of us know the counts in our own country.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 17, 2020, at 8:40 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">John - who are you talking to? Is someone advocating that that I missed? Personally I wish you would stop sending us the counts. But you can't, can you? You just cannot control it. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 7:37 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">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><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">T</font>here were 33,643 American battle deaths during the Korean war, as if today April 17 at 11:54 GMT there were 34,641 deaths from COVID-19. It took the Korean war 3 years one month and 2 days to manufacture that number of cadavers. COVID-19 beat that number in just 48 days. And there are lots of theories but nobody is certain how high that number will get, the only thing that's certain is the number will be much higher if the quarantine is lifted too soon.</font></div><div><br></div><font size="4">And since April 7 COVID-19 has been the leading cause of death in the USA killing more people per day than heart disease (on average about 1,770 deaths per day) or cancer (about 1,640) or anything else. Yesterday COVID-19 killed 2,174 Americans. Do you *really* think ending the quarantine right now is a good idea?</font><div><font size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default">John</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>
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