On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 12:44:52 PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org) wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:06 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
really made me laugh. Of course there are several things I'd like Italy (or Europe) to copy from USA, but certainly not their "wealth and prosperity".
I don't think people realize what I meant.
Bryan, thanks (and I mean it) for taking the time to explain again your point of view. However, I had already said that I agree with several of your statements, including those in your last reply. I only quoted that sentence because it's (more or less) the only one of your original post which I *still* find terribly funny and untrue (*regardless* of how much you actually meant it, or how many USA citizens actually think that way). Really. "Wealth and prosperity" means very different things in different cultures. Rest assured that what most others envy about USA is _not_ what passes for "wealth and prosperity" among most USA _citizens_ (not media). If you still need convincing, have you noticed that another subscriber reacted to the same sentence, and to that only, with very similar arguments? That's all I found necessary to remark, and I stand by what I said. If you want to continue this discussion privately, that's OK with me, since I wasn't trolling. Let's just take this terribly off topic thread off list. Ciao, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Go ahead, capitalize the T on technology, deify it if it will make you feel less responsible -- but it puts you in with the neutered, brother, in with the eunuchs keeping the harem of our stolen Earth for the numb and joyless hardons of human sultans, human elite with no right at all to be where they are -- T. Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com