[beliefs] Re: OT Voting Results

From: James J. Lippard ([email protected])
Date: Sat Sep 18 1999 - 13:56:56 MST


It's irrelevant, Rosemary, because the list moderator asked me to end
the discussion and I agreed, and that's why I closed out the poll early
(the egroups software mailed out the results at that point). I didn't
realize this was a business here, I thought (based on my reading of
Peter's messages about the purpose of the list) that it was a discussion
list.

BTW, you do not accurately report the content of my web page regarding my
political views. The paragraph which you are alluding to is the first
full paragraph above "Various Interests" on
http://www.discord.org/~lippard/bio.html, for anyone who cares.

I don't think anarchism is workable, except perhaps in small communities,
though I think it's an admirable ideal. I think voluntary cooperative
action is almost always preferable to coercion. Unfortunately, coercion
is sometimes necessary. I'd be happy to discuss it further, but I think
that political philosophy is even farther afield than allegations of
plagiarism in SRAM in this forum, and it would be rather hypocritical of
you to want such a discussion to be carried on here. If you want to
create another free egroups list for that purpose, I'd be happy to join
you and other interested persons there.

I would be interested in seeing your proposed business model for
combatting quackery. That would seem to be a more appropriately on-topic
subject for the list.

Jim Lippard [email protected] http://www.discord.org/
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On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Rosemary Jacobs wrote:

> "eGroups.com Poll Results" wrote:
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> > Here are the results of the vote:
> >
> > 1. No, let it continue, at least a little while longer. 1
> > 2. Yes, but give it a little more time to wind down first. 1
> > 3. I don't particularly care one way or the other. 2
> > 4. Yes, get rid of it immediately. 4
> > 5. No, I'm interested to see it run its course. 5
>
> And here is my unsolicited opinion:
>
> I haven't looked at the # of list participants lately. Last I checked it was
> 38. That means that 25 either didn't think it was worth voting on or had
> deleted your messages without reading them. Both Mark and I objected publicly.
> I didn't vote. I don't know if Mark did.
> Furthermore, we don't know a lot of the list members. They could be people
> who do not share our objectives who shouldn't be on the list anyway or they
> could be Becky's buddies come to get her enemies.
> Peter and I and a few others have plans for actively combating health fraud.
> We plan to use a business model. That means that we will try to form a team
> that sets attainable goals. There will be a boss who keeps us focused. Right
> now the boss is Peter.
> Does Microsoft take a poll of employees to see what new program they ought
> to develop? I doubt it. They may consult employees, but I think that
> Gates makes the decisions based on what he believes will best help him attain
> long and short term business goals, and if he does opinion polls, I bet that he
> is pretty certain that he doesn't have trolls on the payroll with goals that are
> different than his.
> Now while we are off topic, I believe you say that you are an anarchist on your
> webpage. Does that mean that you don't believe that governments should
> regulate drugs, therapies or the practice of medicine?
> Rosemary Jacobs
> [email protected]
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