Re: Newbie Installation Problems
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the
> > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two
> > Canadians wanted dead or alive tipped the vote from 49/50 to 51/50 in
> > favor of becoming a US state instead of a Canadian province.
> > Retrospectively, this is considered the worst thing to happen to
> > Oregon as it leaves the international boundary on the wrong side of
> > the state, something that has left us completely defenseless against
> > political and migratory abuse by California (everybody stop moving
> > here, Oregon's full now, not that anybody was welcome to begin with).
>
> Please take your tripe elsewhere. In the U.S. people are free to move
> from state to state without restriction. Get over it. Replace
> Californian with nigger/jew/whop/chink/irish/injun/wetback/etc. and
> see how palatable your xenophobia becomes.
>
> More people move to California in any given year than Oregon and
> California is similarly "defenseless" against these migrations. Since
> this is largely an economic decision, the solution lies in: (1) make
> Oregon a prohibitively expensive place to live; and (2) make Oregon a
> prohibitively expensive place to do business. If you succeed in both of
> those, I'm sure migrations will dwindle to a trickle. Of course, it
> might make Oregon a less desirable place to live for the "natives" as
> well.
>
> --
Thank you very much. You are my new hero of the day. I was getting a
little tired at the californian bashing as well. Ethnocentrism has little
place in an otherwise noble organization such as this.
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