[ExI] Forbidden Words

[William Flynn Wallace]

John wrote - for the
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time
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we have the power to make a species like the mosquito go extinct.
Government agencies have been wringing their hands over actually using it
but every minute they delay mosquitos kill another 2 people and cause 4 or
5 more to become very sick. Fortunately some non governmental agencies are
starting to show an interest.

John, I think it will happen somewhere overseas before it gets through our
dithering agencies (of which we have way too many).  Ditto gene editing of
humans.  Not necessarily a bad thing.  Conservative Christians have a lot
of say there that they don't in many other countries - China, India,
Ethiopia, etc.

bill w




bill w

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:36 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace
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> >…Over a year ago maybe we overdid it on politics, and lost a few people
> who weren't contributing much anyway.  Good riddance…
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> In at least one very notable case, bad riddance, bad for us.
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> >…At least people were thinking about an important topic…
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> It has me thinking hard about inner circles.  If a government has an inner
> circle, if that concept exists (and I think it does) who gets to be part of
> it?  If government people can have their private email seized and
> scrutinized long after it is written, which government people can be out of
> reach of that?  ​
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> >…So, Spike, I disagree - this is a proper for forum for anything that
> doesn't bring everyone down on him…
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> ​>… (like we did John, and he backed off)​
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> .  Or her.​
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> Wait, what?  John is an or her?  I always though of him or her as a him.
> But now that you mention it, I don’t recall he or she ever specified his or
> her gender.
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> >…You have no reason to apologize to anyone.  bill w​
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> Oh OK, my apologies for the unnecessary apology.  If that new one is
> unnecessary, I am stuck in a recursive loop from which there is no escape.
> Eh, no harm, it is a result of many years of socialization into proper
> decorum in public.  Somehow that decorum occasionally spills over into this
> forum, which is a fun, weird exception to public.
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> This is not a decorum forum.  To make it one, we would need a quorum.
> Then we need guy to score ‘em.  We lose points if we bore ‘em.  The
> wordplay we outpour em.
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> spike
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