Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.programming > #11963

Re: Getting random numbers.

From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Getting random numbers.
Date 2021-01-23 09:27 +0000
Organization Fix this later
Message-ID <rugq6c$61c$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (6 earlier) <6009c3dd$0$34724$a92e2ab9@news.vipernews.com> <rudri0$qpm$1@dont-email.me> <rue05a$h5e$1@dont-email.me> <rue52u$g5m$1@dont-email.me> <rue8fl$4c6$1@dont-email.me>

Show all headers | View raw

On 22/01/2021 10:13, David Brown wrote:
> On 22/01/2021 10:15, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 22/01/2021 07:51, David Brown wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> You can always come back to your old C group.
>>
>> That sounds promising!
>>
>>> It hasn't changed much,
>>
>> Oh. In that case, there's not much point. If I wanted to discuss
>> religion, I'd subscribe to a religion group.
>>
> 
> No one ever discusses religion in religious groups (IME) - people just
> yell at each other.  Discussion involves listening.
> 
> There are not many religious discussions in the C and C++ groups either,
> but there are occasional religious threads.

It was in one such thread that I was berated in no uncertain terms (not 
by a passing religious nut but by a respected regular contributor) for 
mildly objecting to discussions of religion in clc. He was backed up by 
the group at large. For me personally, it was a tipping point - a place 
from which I could see no route back for clc.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

Back to comp.programming | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 07:11 -0800
  Re: Getting random numbers. Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 15:25 +0000
    Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-21 16:38 +0100
      Re: Getting random numbers. Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 16:37 +0000
      Re: Getting random numbers. chovy <chovy@pm.me> - 2021-01-21 08:37 -0800
        Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-21 18:00 +0100
          Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 09:29 -0800
            Re: Getting random numbers. Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 18:02 +0000
            Re: Getting random numbers. chovy <chovy@pm.me> - 2021-01-21 10:11 -0800
              Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 10:21 -0800
                Re: Getting random numbers. Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 18:39 +0000
              Re: Getting random numbers. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-01-22 06:32 +0000
                Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-22 08:51 +0100
                Re: Getting random numbers. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-01-22 09:15 +0000
                Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-22 11:13 +0100
                Re: Getting random numbers. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-01-23 09:27 +0000
                Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-23 12:28 +0100
                Re: Getting random numbers. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-01-23 12:10 +0000
          Re: Getting random numbers. chovy <chovy@pm.me> - 2021-01-21 10:11 -0800
            Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-21 20:55 +0100
              Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 13:08 -0800
                Re: Getting random numbers. chovy <chovy@pm.me> - 2021-01-21 13:53 -0800
                Re: Getting random numbers. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-21 22:53 +0100
                Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 13:57 -0800
                Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 15:13 -0800
                Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 15:20 -0800
                Re: Getting random numbers. H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 20:39 -0800

csiph-web