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RE: Delicious Irony of the Day: BillOReilly.com DDoS'd
From: "David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:48:49 -0000
Listen - there's nothing wrong with thinking that you're living in a great country. Most Europeans think that too. What can be a tad annoying is thinking that other people don't.
I usually assume that life is too short to get into this sort of discussion. But I may as well say this once. There is a lot about the US I like, though I don't particularly yearn to live there, and there are some Americans whose friendship I value greatly. There's a lot about the US I don't like so much, but I don't think the UK/Europe/Brits/Europeans is/are perfection either. I do get tired of "My country good, your country bad" near-chauvinism. It's not unique to the US by any means (in real life, very little is unique to the US apart from geographical location), but I do see an awful lot of it from there, and it's not my kind of fun. If it were, I'd spend more time discussing Microsoft with Mac users.
Most Americans completely fail to understand the idea of constitutional democracy with a monarch as Head of State.
I haven't yet worked out why the constitutional role of your head of state defines whether your society is capitalist, either.
They fail to understand that we are no more "yoked to the monarch" than American are yoked to the American flag. Both are a symbol of the state; the main difference is that you can't fly the queen from your truck.
There are members of the royal family that I would like to string up like the Union flag, but that's another discussion. Now where can I get a pair of those asbestos jammies? -- David Harley Security Author/Editor/Consultant, Antivirus Researcher Small Blue-Green World dharley () smallblue-greenworld co uk New botnet book: http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4270 Security Bibliography: http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk/pages/bibliography.html Articles: http://watersidesyndication.com/inbusiness/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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