On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:01:43 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:

To me the best thing, the really exceptionally cool thing about this thread is
that it exists at all. Where else can highly trained people exchange viewpoints
in this manner? Before the advent of newsgroups and the Internet in general,
such discourse between individuals would have been very unlikely, maybe limited
to two or three people in some chance encounter.

I have learned a lot reading this post, and I suspect others have too.

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington


Indeed. And some of it explains the decline in this little corner of
our civilization.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner