On Wednesday, 05.01.2005 at 11:22 -0500, Brendan wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:56, Dave Ewart wrote: > > So he knows what 300 million USA residents think? And yet nothing > > of the remainder of the world's population? Doubtful. > > Of course. Didn't you know that we all think alike? Duh! Er, right. And this helps your case how, exactly? I assume you've missed a smiley. > > His original comment read "In a country of 300M people, there *will* > > be some people who say, 'It sounds too black.'" It would be more > > reasonable to have simply removed "in a country of 300M people". > > This generalises his remark in a perfectly sensible way without > > putting on the irritating US-centric hat. > > Irritating to you, because you obviously have a serious chip on your > shoulder. Not at all. US makes up approximately 5% of the world's population. The arrogance of some in the US [1] who believe that only the US is important, or that "US == The World", annoys me. And I personally know many who feel the same. I also personally know US citizens who are equally appalled by the bad image that such US-centrics give to the US. [1] I'm not saying the original poster was arrogant, but this topic has drifted somewhat. Maybe we should stop now :-) > You're still clueless about not being able to generalize about other > places if you don't know about them, aren't you? That's sad. The poster generalized about 300 million people. I wouldn't like to generalize about anyone I don't know. > I dislike the name Ubuntu, because it's hard to say, and people always > say "What?" Other than that, it's just as silly-sounding as gentoo or > Debian. We are certainly in agreement on this point :-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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