Rute Sofia wrote:
> ...By the way, besides man, women and gay do you also want to know
> anything else?? Is there any cats among us??? And chickens??? :-)
>
> I think more important to the extropian list is to know for example our
> nationality and tastes. If you want to know WHO are the extropians,
> there's lots of things (and more important) to know besides gender...
yes, that would be interesting, perhaps moreso than gender and preference: how many pets do extropians own?
i make my living mining data in aerospace, looking for patterns that can help us discover and fix problems before they result in TBCs (truly bad consequences.) a for instance would be the ill fated shuttle mission. had the data miners discovered the link between increased solid rocket motor burnthru and low temperatures, well, we would have 7 more astronauts with us today.
so, i want to learn things about our group without causing anyone to reveal anything about themselves. i dont know if it is possible, may not be. {8-[ but i also know there are some clever folks out there who may know a trick. how does one poll a group while simultaneously protecting everyone's privacy and protecting the database from folks like the lesbian extropian meme starter? spike