standard to metric converter program

[Richard Cornford]

Re: standard to metric converter program

"John G Harris" <john@nospam.de mon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2Bz2GcAXKX o$EwzR@jgharris .demon.co.uk...[color=blue]
> <snip>[color=green]
>>..., just what
>>has the USA done to deserve this contempt?[/color]
><snip>
>
> Posted job adverts in comp.lang.javas cript without the
>acronym USA appearing anywhere in the article :-([/color]

The United States of America posted a job advert in
comp.lang.javas cript? Did it leave an email address? ;-)

Richard.

[Fabian]

Re: standard to metric converter program

Albert Wagner hu kiteb:
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> ... In the last
> half-century since the end of World War II and the retreat of
> European colonialism, just what has the USA done to deserve this
> contempt?[/color]

Um, is this a rhetorical question? Or do you genuinely have no idea?
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> ...In fifty more years do you suppose it will be as forgotten
> as the parochialism of Europe that chopped up Africa, the Middle East
> and South Asia?[/color]

I doubt it. That hasn't been forgotten either by the descendants of
those involved.

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[Albert Wagner]

Re: standard to metric converter program

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:51:43 +0000
Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>[color=blue]
> There is, in the USA, a naive belief that the language that is spoken
> there is English[/color]
<snip>[color=blue]
> There are probably more people in the EU who can read English
> adequately than there are in the USA[/color]
<snip>[color=blue]
> That is of course true, since the Americans are notoriously pig-headed
> in international affairs.[/color]
<snip>

I just did a scan of your most recent posts to this newsgroup and the
quoted text above is typical. At this point, I think that it is quite
clear to all what you think of the USA and it's citizens. I was tempted
to bite on this flame bait. I was also curious as to why you decided to
spew such vitriol in a technical language newsgroup. But rather, I
think that I'll be quite content for you just to confine further remarks
to javascript.

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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: standard to metric converter program

Albert Wagner <alwagner@tcac. net> writes:
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> I just did a scan of your most recent posts to this newsgroup and the
> quoted text above is typical.[/color]

All other things aside, I belive the statement:
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> > There are probably more people in the EU who can read English
> > adequately than there are in the USA[/color][/color]

to be true, and I see no reason to read it as critique of the US.
It might be wrong, but I think it is *probably* true.

Obviously many of us in the EU will only just speak English
adequately, and some not at all, but the population of the EU is 150%
of the population of the US, and all countries in the EU teach English
in school.

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[Albert Wagner]

Re: standard to metric converter program

On 31 Oct 2003 02:26:28 +0100
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <lrn@hotpop.com > wrote:
<snip>[color=blue]
> All other things aside, I belive the statement:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > There are probably more people in the EU who can read English
> > > adequately than there are in the USA[/color][/color]
>
> to be true, and I see no reason to read it as critique of the US.
> It might be wrong, but I think it is *probably* true.
>
> Obviously many of us in the EU will only just speak English
> adequately, and some not at all, but the population of the EU is 150%
> of the population of the US, and all countries in the EU teach English
> in school.[/color]

Possibly, but not likely, in that except for the UK, English is a second
language for members of the EU. Furthermore, if the honorable Dr John
is free to make his judgements based on Usenet posts by USA citizens
then, in like manner, I am free to judge the English proficiency of EU
members. At any rate my post does not depend on that one contested
statement; The dear Dr's dislike for anything American is clearly
visible and his remarks are definitely offensive. To quote the good Dr:
"It is not a question of understanding, but of good manners."

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[Dr John Stockton]

Re: standard to metric converter program

JRS: In article <bnro9h030ek@dr n.newsguy.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Lee <REM0VElbspamtr ap@cox.net> posted at Thu,
30 Oct 2003 11:20:17 :-[color=blue][color=green]
>>That is of course true, since the Americans are notoriously pig-headed
>>in international affairs. I have just read, in my newspaper, of a group
>>of Americans who wanted to entertain an Iraqi to a generous lunch. So
>>far so good. But (a) it was in Ramadan, a time for dawn-to-dusk fast;
>>and (b) the menu included ham sandwiches. They don't even have the wit
>>to understand those who they invade.
>>
>>That attitude, on the part of the US, is not acceptable to those
>>elsewhere.[/color]
>
>Another attitude that is frowned upon in some places is to
>characterize the actions of a group of people as showing the
>attitude of their nation.
>
>It seems more likely to me that somebody made up a nice bash
>than that anybody in Iraq could possibly overlook the fact that
>it's Ramadan. Do you have a citation for the article?[/color]


Try a search of the Telegraph sites - the London Daily and Sunday
Telegraph. That London is in England, which is part of the UK. Search
also your own newspapers and other media.


But why do you assume that it took place in Iraq?

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[Dr John Stockton]

Re: standard to metric converter program

JRS: In article <sgC30eADbpo$Ew zq@merlyn.demon .co.uk>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.de mon.co.uk>
posted at Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:07:15 :-[color=blue]
>JRS: In article <bnro9h030ek@dr n.newsguy.com>, seen in
>news:comp.lang .javascript, Lee <REM0VElbspamtr ap@cox.net> posted at Thu,
>30 Oct 2003 11:20:17 :-[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>That is of course true, since the Americans are notoriously pig-headed
>>>in international affairs. I have just read, in my newspaper, of a group
>>>of Americans who wanted to entertain an Iraqi to a generous lunch. So
>>>far so good. But (a) it was in Ramadan, a time for dawn-to-dusk fast;
>>>and (b) the menu included ham sandwiches. They don't even have the wit
>>>to understand those who they invade.
>>>
>>>That attitude, on the part of the US, is not acceptable to those
>>>elsewhere.[/color]
>>
>>Another attitude that is frowned upon in some places is to
>>characteriz e the actions of a group of people as showing the
>>attitude of their nation.
>>
>>It seems more likely to me that somebody made up a nice bash
>>than that anybody in Iraq could possibly overlook the fact that
>>it's Ramadan. Do you have a citation for the article?[/color]
>
>
>Try a search of the Telegraph sites - the London Daily and Sunday
>Telegraph. That London is in England, which is part of the UK. Search
>also your own newspapers and other media.
>
>
>But why do you assume that it took place in Iraq?
>[/color]


A Telegraph Web site search yielded the article name & date, enabling an
efficient personal search of the actual tangible newspaper itself.

Weds Oct 29, 2003, page 15, top, title "Jessica Lynch snubs lawyer who
helped to free her", by Marcus Warren in New York.

"A journey to the home town ... visit to Palestine, West Virginia. ...
.... . Local people laid on an impressive spread at a reception to greet
the al-Rehaiefs, only to discover that the family was fasting for
Ramadan. Even if the guests had been hungry they would have been
unlikely, as Muslims, to tuck into the ham sandwiches on offer."

In a place called Palestine, too !

About 20 column-centimetres / 8 column-inches and two pictures.

Below is a photograph of US soldiery - one has a chin almost like that
of Buzz Lightyear.

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[Lee]

Re: standard to metric converter program

Dr John Stockton said:[color=blue]
>
>JRS: In article <bnro9h030ek@dr n.newsguy.com>, seen in
>news:comp.lang .javascript, Lee <REM0VElbspamtr ap@cox.net> posted at Thu,
>30 Oct 2003 11:20:17 :-[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>That is of course true, since the Americans are notoriously pig-headed
>>>in international affairs. I have just read, in my newspaper, of a group
>>>of Americans who wanted to entertain an Iraqi to a generous lunch. So
>>>far so good. But (a) it was in Ramadan, a time for dawn-to-dusk fast;
>>>and (b) the menu included ham sandwiches. They don't even have the wit
>>>to understand those who they invade.
>>>
>>>That attitude, on the part of the US, is not acceptable to those
>>>elsewhere.[/color]
>>
>>Another attitude that is frowned upon in some places is to
>>characteriz e the actions of a group of people as showing the
>>attitude of their nation.
>>
>>It seems more likely to me that somebody made up a nice bash
>>than that anybody in Iraq could possibly overlook the fact that
>>it's Ramadan. Do you have a citation for the article?[/color]
>
>
>Try a search of the Telegraph sites - the London Daily and Sunday
>Telegraph. That London is in England, which is part of the UK.[/color]

Cultural differences again. Here in the US, that sort of thing
makes us think you're pretty pathetic.
[color=blue]
>Search also your own newspapers and other media.[/color]

I used Google's News search for combinations of "Iraqi Ramadan,
luncheon, ham" and a few others.

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>But why do you assume that it took place in Iraq?[/color]

Misread.