Re: Career questions: databases

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:4689a98c$0$4336$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...
> Bruce C. Baker wrote:
>
>> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:46899de5$0$4325$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net...
>>
>>>Bruce C. Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>>
>>>>>>And two, Brits don't know nothing. If they did, then they wouldn't
>>>>>>have lost
>>>>>>their world empire, and wouldn't have needed us to bail them out in
>>>>>>WWII.
>>>>>
>>>>>Let's take that discussion further.
>>>>>Wherever the white man goes, everything is left is ruins. Starting
>>>>
>>>>>from the colonial times and following to the present day, consider
>>>>
>>>>>reading the histories of the Indian subcontinent, South America,
>>>>>Africa, the Middle East, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, with perhaps Iran
>>>>>and Venezuela to follow. And let's not even talk about the Red
>>>>>Indians.
>>>>
>>>>Sorry, old boy, but actually it's "Wherever the white man has
>>>>/departed/, everything is in ruins." Seems that while the natives are
>>>>capable of enjoying the fruits of civilization, they aren't quite
>>>>capable of maintaining it. Pity, really.
>>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>
>>>Even that isn't necessarily true: see Japan.
>>
>> Quite right, Bob; I forgot Japan. BUT, can you name another non-European
>> country that has adopted western ways so well?
>
> China now that Mao's stupidity is over.

They're on the right path economically; Politically, they haven't even /found/ the path., Received on Tue Jul 03 2007 - 04:02:21 CEST