Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community
On 18/09/2014, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, John. But we should be going OT....
>
> On Thursday 18 September 2014 00:45:24 John Hasler wrote:
>> Lisi writes:
>> > There are four countries in the United Kingdom: Ireland, Scotland,
>> > Wales and England.
>>
>> In roughly the same sense in which there are fifty countries in the USA.
>
> No. They are separate countries, with an earlier lengthy political history.
>
> Scotland and England were separate kingdoms until the Act of Union in 1707.
>
Whereafter, it was all handed over to the germans (at that time, House
of Hanover, and thence passed on to the House of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha), and has been under german monarchy for now 300 years (the
handover to the germans; to the House of Hanover, apparently, occurred
01 August 1714, so, as from 01 August 2014, britain has been under
german rule, for 300 years).
So, after 300 years of german rule, the scots get to vote whether they
should become independent.
Interesting.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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