Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT: National stereotypes. Was Re: Naming conventions. Was: Re: Did the sort do anything? Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:43:24 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <9303hcFq0nU1@mid.individual.net> <6787e80d-9ea8-45ab-b09a-0c5a670beaaa@p13g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4dd3a529$0$12156$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <4dda2828$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <4dda88b6$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net rx68yZcH9ceep8m3yal+nFrCluaYGcbnfB1L5B8i9vddFCm6Azt9zRLSCIKMfKCdZzZ15gkyuCa0LxNE+fxjP/iz+ZDsSwY9xj/ISwHkP3b5cQ1tk1mFGOpRJMNjSCC3 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="ihNmVM4Jajt53jNeuA01sAaTdrIMw4+FQSUJSJEv/tYpr7pa3jzz327/heTMLuW6lVojtb8IDwydFKz1dGG2yjRtYUkKY30YFLgG/Ady1nVX9d111rl1yitKx8kRut+s"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4dda88b6$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:s4oVzZi6YLDSVI7GA7kV511xIyM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4480 On 05/23/2011 12:17 PM, RedGrittyBrick wrote: > On 23/05/2011 14:05, Lew wrote: >> RedGrittyBrick wrote: >>> Lew wrote: >>>> RedGrittyBrick wrote: >>>>> Robert Klemme wrote: >>>>>> AFAIK Lew is from UK >>>>> You wag! >> >>>> I am, in fact, not British, nor do I recognize >>>> any monarch as having authority over me, save the butterfly. >> ^^^^^^^ >>> Bless. Next you'll be suggesting it is possible to be "from the US" >>> and not >>> recognise the authority of the pope. >> >> Sure, why not? It's spelled "Pope", he has no authority over me, either, >> and I am from the U.S. >> >> Oh, my God! You predicted that I'd say that! You must be psychic! >> >> I assume you were joking, of course, as it's obvious that one can be >> from the U.S. and not recognize the Pope as having authority over >> oneself. I also don't recognize Muammar Qaddafi as having authority over >> me, nor any other head of state or government of a nation where I do not >> reside or am not visiting. > > I was pointing out your non-sequiteur [sic]. Being "from the UK" implies nothing > about what authorities you recognise. So the part about monarchs was a bit > weird. My hat is a dodo. What? That's crazy talk. Of course whether I'm from the U.K. affects who I recognize as an authority over me. Duh. In what way does any monarch have any authority over me, given that I live in the U.S.? How is it not relevant that I am not a citizen of any nation that recognizes a monarchy as its government? Perhaps if you explain that you will go some distance toward explaining how it's a non sequitur. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg