Re: OT: Bloody Yanks up to their tricks again !

On 26 Oct 2006 09:34:47 -0700, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:


John Fields wrote:
On 25 Oct 2006 17:55:51 -0700, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Geez, Bill, as it is (after we take out the ads) our newspapers
weigh about 20 pounds, and that's just to reporting our local news.
I guess we could stand to add another ounce or two to cover what's
happening in the rest of the world, but why bother? After all, it's
really so unimportant.
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Your scientists tend to the same atitude - if something isn't published
in English, it doesn't exist,

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It exists, but if it isn't important enough to publish in English,
how important can it be?
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and if it isn't published in a U.S. based
journal, it isn't likely to get read.

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Well, it'll get read, I'm sure, and, if it's important, it'll
eventually get translated into and published in English.

English _is_ the lingua franca of the civilized world, you know.

Blame the Brits for that, since you seem to need to find fault with
someone... anyone.
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The Review of Scientific Instruments gets caught out on this from time,
not always by me.

The are exceptions to this sort of parochial thinking inside the U.S.,
but nowhere near enough. You may like to think that you live in God's
only country, but it isn't a good way to stay well-informed.

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Not God's only country, but God's only Internet, brought to you
through the courtesy of the US and our military ARPANET, which
allows various malcontents, like you, to vent globally without going
postal.

And, just think... because of that we no longer need to depend on
the vagaries of the data pipe from Nijmegen. That must be a _huge_
relief for you, no longer having to bear the responsibility for
disseminating what you might consider to be critically important
material.
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I must say that it does make an amusing image - Angela Merkel (of all
people) goose-stepping in front of a resurgent German army. The
oppositon would probably be laughing too hard to do much in the way of
opposing, so it might just work ...

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Ya think?

Regularly. You should try it sometime.

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No, I mean really.

Do you consciously have to think about that your knuckles are
dragging before you pull yourself fully erect to keep them from
being rubbed raw, or is that an autonomic response?


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John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer
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