Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:28:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:24, Nathan Eric Norman wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> > > Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed:
> > > <snip />
> > >
> > > > Red China Communism came from where? ;-)
> > >
> > > Just to quickly jump in, then back out of this trivial, off-topic
> > > polemic:
> > >
> > > [a] There is not, nor has there ever been, a Communist government. The
> > > Soviet Union, Peoples Republic of China, et al. are -- at best --
> > > socialist states, which is not Communism.
> > >
> > > [b] There is not, nor has there ever been, a Democratic government. The
> > > United States of America, Great Britain, et al. are -- at best --
> > > Republics, and a Republic is *not* a Democracy.
> >
> > I was under the impression that Iceland and Switzerland are (or at
> > least were within the past 50 years) true democracies.
>
> Google is a wonderful thing.
> http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2128.html
> Iceland constitutional republic
> Switzerland federal republic
Have we figured out who owns the Moon yet?
Reply to: