From thinkit8@lycos.com Fri Jul 27 19:43:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 28 Jul 2001 02:43:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 80377 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2001 02:43:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Jul 2001 02:43:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n17.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.1.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Jul 2001 02:43:41 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.10.93] by mq.egroups.com with NNFMP; 28 Jul 2001 02:43:41 -0000 Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 02:43:38 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: how can i help lojban? what can $ do? Message-ID: <9jt8sq+tmkr@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 929 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com --- In lojban@y..., "And Rosta" wrote: > > From: thinkit8@l... [mailto:thinkit8@l...] > > anyways, lojban is one of the only things i ever thought to donate > > money to (i don't even tip). so if you ever see a huge donation, it > > might be me. i floated the $10-million dollar value out but even > > that seems small. what's more important--lojban or social security? > > and social security dwarfs $10 million. > > This is not a very important point to discuss, but I am nonetheless > wondering: The above seems to imply that lojban is more important > than social security; but it seems incredible to me that anyone > sane enough to be a lojbanophile could believe that. Did I misunderstand > the point that was being made? > > --And. well, i'm giving the libertarian viewpoint. if we didn't have to pay social security, we'd certainly have more money to donate to useful causes like lojban.