From: Eeyore on


Phat Bytestard wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:58:32 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken
> Smith) Gave us:
>
> > On the JSF, the US will be putting up almost all the money for
> >development
>
> Wrong. It is already developed, and THAT was done by a private
> company using their own dollars.

Using a *government paid for* development contract you clown ! US militaryplanes
have regularly been funded this way.

Graham


From: Eeyore on


Phat Bytestard wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:19:47 +0100, Eeyore
> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us:
>
> >
> >
> >Phat Bytestard wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:46:56 +0100, Eeyore
> >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us:
> >>
> >> > It was all a big conspiracy.
> >>
> >> You're an idiot.
> >
> >The fact you can't distinguish a joke from reality is very telling !
>
> The fact that you make one in this thread is very telling.

You'd prefer not to lighten up ?

Graham

From: Eeyore on


Phat Bytestard wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:55:21 -0500, John Fields
> <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> Gave us:
>
> >In any case, lucky for you that we got dragged into it when we did,
> >no?
>
> You'll never get a straight answer from that dweeb.

Strange perhaps ? that he did then !

Graham


From: Eeyore on


Phat Bytestard wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:11:01 +0100, Eeyore
> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us:
>
> >Frank Bemelman wrote:
>
> >> > In short, point us to your list of democracies - both the one for 1950 and
> >> > the one for 2000.
> >>
> >> Does the actual number matter here? This is just one of JL's famous smoke
> >> curtains, pretending as if the increase in democracies is an all American
> >> achievement, for which the world - again - has to be thankful or something.
> >
> >Indeed. The USA probably contributed fairly insignificantly to that number.
>
> Can you really be *THAT* stupid?

Do please by all means name those countries made into democracies by the USA since
1950.

Graham


From: Tom Del Rosso on
YD <ydtechHAT(a)techie.com> typed
in news://t5q4d2tv88j7s9m8raarnjdhc3aejrklei(a)4ax.com,

> 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.

It would have been more appropriate if it had gone on for so long that it
became sentient and attacked all the posters.


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