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From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 17:13 On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:53:08 +0100, John Woodgate <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <34c4d2p7opp8cvr997gvhfnm0sf7047gsn(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 >Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> >writes >>the grass-roots likability of most Americans. > >As manifested by the personal abuse levelled at any dissenter in this >and many other threads? --- Well, John, I think the "abuse" is retaliation against constant America-bashing, and I don't really think this is grass-roots, do you? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: YD on 3 Aug 2006 17:24 On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:05:33 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:35:24 +0100, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>O5O wrote: >> >>> GOOD JOB JIM!!!! >>> >>> I am impressed. >>> >>> One week. 489 posts to this thread! >>> >>> Keep up the good work! >> >>Maybe we can set a record ? >> >>Graham > >I wonder what's the record for the biggest thread on usenet? The >subject line was surely blank, on the principle that the less specific >the subject, the longer the thread. > >John Look up the "Hacker t-shirt" thread in alt.2600. ISTR it was 2000+ last time I looked. It's pretty old by now. Seems there was one in some startrek group that went on for so long it evolved into a separate ng. - YD. -- Remove HAT if replying by mail.
From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 17:22 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:33:51 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Its a good thing Rich doesn't have to fight forest fires. The >concept of a backfire would cause his tiny brain to implode. --- I think Rich probably thinks a backfire is a jalapeno fart. ;) -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 3 Aug 2006 17:39 John Fields wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:26:26 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> John Larkin wrote: > >>> If so, how do you explain what a mess the world had been for, say, the >>> previous 1000 years? Could it have been, just maybe, somebody else's >>> doing? >> As opposed to the mess it is now? >> Just shows that the US has changed nothing. >> In 1000 years the only thing the US will be remembered for will be the >> moon landings. Not its brief shot at empire before the Chinese dominated >> the globe. > > --- > Yeah, like we're just going to sit back and let that happen? You plan on stopping them? Within a couple of generations their economy will be about as big as the rest of the world combined. By some measures their economy is already larger than the US. Dirk
From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 17:47
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:41:53 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: >"Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> schreef in bericht >news:4jetnlF7nbi8U1(a)individual.net... >> >> Oh... and Israel would disappear down the historical plughole. > >And good riddance with it. --- Hello, Adolf? Yeah. We've found your long-lost brother Frank... -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer |