> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
