Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.086 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.84; '*S*': 0.01; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'back.': 0.09; 'broke': 0.09; 'image,': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sins': 0.16; 'contributed': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; '---': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; '[1]': 0.29; 'beyond': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'little': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'tell': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'break': 0.61; 'took': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'kind': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'love': 0.65; 'great': 0.65; 'north': 0.65; 'within': 0.65; 'world': 0.66; 'europe': 0.67; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'sound': 0.68; 'special': 0.74; 'hand': 0.80; 'island': 0.84; 'promptly': 0.84; 'curse': 0.91; 'inventions': 0.91; 'loans': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:35:35 +0100 References: <7xha49wumw.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-29-12.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140715-0, 15/07/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1405438544 news.xs4all.nl 2940 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44897 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:74490 On 15/07/2014 13:19, alister wrote: >> >> Image, for a moment, a world WITHOUT the great USA! Yes, i know you >> little commies love to curse the USA, and yes, >> there are many dark sins committed within AND beyond her borders, but >> try to tell me you bass-turds, what nation in modern history has >> contributed more technological achievements [1] > > I think you will find that more inventions have originated on this > desolate windswept island of the north coast of Europe than the USA. > Like the technology that was used to break the sound barrier? Handed to the Yanks in a deal that they promptly broke but refused to hand the technology back. Special relationship, yep, they were kind enough to give us 60 years to pay off the loans we took out during WWII. As Aurthur Daley used to say "nice little earner". -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com