Mxsmanic

JohnT writes:

    > Prestel ceased to exist on 5-6-02. See http://www.dialup-migration.prestel.net/

Weather sites and telephone services continue to exist.

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Mxsmanic

mistissini writes:

    > Government agencies report their employee statistics to the census bureau,
    > so they have to.

Your logic escapes me. How does reporting statistics to one government
agency give that agency authority over English usage in the rest of the
government?

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Mxsmanic

me writes:

    > So by your logic, Europeans working 35 hours per week as their peers working
    > 50 or 60 hours per week in Singapore are less intelligent?

Working hours have little to do with work ethics. It's entirely
conceivable that the average IQ of Europeans might be slightly lower,
but if so, it has nothing to do with the choice of working hours.

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The Reids

Following up to bogus address

    >the one exotic thing like
    >I saw was a pizza with some utterly bizarre combination of toppings -

Then there is the deep fried pizza, I'm reliably informed they
are around as an option right now.
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The Reids

Following up to mistissini

    >> You are "on a loser" my friend, Mixi likes playing games, he
    >> knows you are a stupid troll, its you who are being played with,
    >> not the reverse.
    >He was obviously playing games, but I was seeing if he could get into a
    >mature discussion of the topic. Looks like he cannot.

You're not playing games here then?
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The Reids

Following up to Mxsmanic

    >because a strong work ethic is
    >logically advantageous to society and the individual and smart people
    >can see this.

Not when it results in rampant consumerism and destruction of non
renewables.
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Tim Challenger

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:23:40 +0100, JohnT wrote:

    > "Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >> Tim Challenger writes:
    >>> Data via Videotext (Prestel in the UK and Minitel in France) is sent on
    >>> demand to the television by telephone, or cable separately to the
    >>> television picture and is to a certain extent interactive.
    >> So is weather information.
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    > Prestel ceased to exist on 5-6-02. See http://www.dialup-migration.prestel.net/

But minitel is going strong.
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Tim Challenger

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:52:38 GMT, mistissini wrote:

    >> All supermarkets carry healthy food and vegetables. I don't know anyone
    >> who has eaten a deep-fried snickers bar.
    >
    > Supposing you're right, do supermarkets accept Euros?

LOL!
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Tim Challenger

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:04:49 GMT, mistissini wrote:

    >> You would travel abroad just to connect to the Internet? It's the
    >> _same_ Internet no matter where you go.
    >
    > No, I would still find out about different aspects of it.

like what?
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Tim Challenger

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:04:49 GMT, mistissini wrote:

    >> My impression is that you might encounter hostility in many different
    >> environments, since you seem to project it.
    >
    > People with low self esteem may perceive my actions as "hostility".

And people with high self esteem will almost certainly perceive your
actions as hostility.
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Tim Challenger

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:34:22 GMT, mistissini wrote:

    > I have never seen a department filled with natives. Care to name some?

All the departments at the university I went to in Swansea, faculty of
natural science. Few foreigners there.
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Tim Challenger

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 15:00:00 +0200, Petter wrote:

    >> Seriously though, he's obviously trolling. The more you respond to him
    >> the more he feels he is getting a reaction, which gives him a (small)
    >> hard on.
    >> You don't want to do that surely?
    > It's better with his small hard thingy behind his PC than out in the real
    > world (eg. Copenhagen) among small children.

<g>
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Tim Challenger

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:37:09 GMT, mistissini wrote:

    > Broadband access
    > is
    > cheap in France, and PCs are not expensive, but relatively few French
    > people own a PC,

because the things that most French people would use the internet for like
booking hotels have been done on minitel for decades?
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Tim Challenger

    > Can we all now stop feeding him?
    >
    > (I'll guess no is the answer).

Don't be daft, I'm having too much fun watching Mixi baiting him/her/it.
    :)

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Mxsmanic

Tim Challenger writes:

    > because the things that most French people would use the internet for like
    > booking hotels have been done on minitel for decades?

Yes, that's an important reason (although the Minitel is ruinously
expensive compared to the Internet). They were ahead of the back with
the Minitel, and now they don't realize how hopelessly behind they are.
Kind of like American cellphones.

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