Stewart Stremler wrote: >>I realize this is the expected cynical comment to make here but that >>really isn't true. Our papers and governments do not tell us we are >>free. Not like the ones over there do. The freedom we enjoy here is of >>an entirely different magnitude. > > Wouldn't they say that otherwise?
No. Because they are not aware of the kinds of freedoms we enjoy here. One of the advantages (from the governments point of view( of being the only country on the planet that speaks the language and having very few communication mediums by which the average joe can get outside news. The internet is pretty much the only one. This is why China has their Great Firewall. I am pretty sure VN filters/proxies everything also due to odd behavior and slow response to http requests and a few pages I was unable to reach but I don't go looking for the Vietnamese language sites so I am sure there are many pages blocked that I would not know about. > 'Course not, 'cuz we're here, we're used to this... and we're rich. I think our freedoms are one of the main reasons why we are rich and they are not. US, Britain, France, Norway...there is a pretty strong correlation with freedom and economic prosperity it seems. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
