Two facts:

Post #183,851 by Arkadiy 11/10/04 3:07:15 PM Reply	Two facts: 1) you and some of the rest of the crowd here have distinctly different tone WRT Christianity 2) you think you're a "mainstream left" That leads me to conclude that, at least in your opinion, the other kind is not "mainstream". Question: what do the other people I quoted think about being "mainstream"? Mmoffitt, is your style representative of most of the "left" crowd? Another question: whom do your opponents consider more representative? We heard from AnotherScott. Beep, care to answer? I personally think that most people in liberal circls are like you, but most noise coming from there is generated by the other kind. I have to constantly remind myself about this, though. Still another question: what is the perception of "right" on the left? We heard from deS with his "old-fashioned Montana(?) honesty". We heard from mmoffitt with "flat earthers". Any more? Person to person, both crowds mostly have decent people. The IQ of a crowd, however, is the lowest IQ in in it divided by the number of participants. Hence the perception problems. -- This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet. -- [link\|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx\|The] Daily WTF
Post #183,852 by bepatient 11/10/04 4:14:46 PM Reply	I've come to find... that the members of this group are hardly a representative sample of one position or another. The "typical liberal" or "typical conservative" are not here. We are all >extremely< atypical. ;-) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #183,853 by Silverlock 11/10/04 4:49:28 PM Reply	I think I have to agree The "typical liberal" or "typical conservative" are not here. Or anywhere. From those assigning the label, you will get a different interpretation of "typical" 11 times out of 10 opinions. ----------------------------------------- How do you convince a Washington Journalist that you're not slapping him in the face? Tell him you're not.
Post #183,855 by Arkadiy 11/10/04 5:26:50 PM Reply	"average programmer" :) -- This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet. -- [link\|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx\|The] Daily WTF
Post #183,881 by ben_tilly 11/11/04 11:56:48 AM Reply	Well there are multiple "right"s The perception of the current administration is as you might expect: they are arrogant, incompetent fascist bastards from the religious right. Feelings vascillate between fear that these yahoos are running the show, to shame that they represent us, to outrage at what they've chosen to do, to astonishment that people like this exist (and fool people)! More broadly I think that there is widespread understanding that there are multiple factions on the right wing. Feelings about people who are right-wing economically (like Milton Friedman) differ from feelings about the religious right (eg Ashcroft) differ from feelings about the neo-conservatives who've hijacked this administration (like Rumsfeld). But none of those feelings are very positive. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

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