On 03/02/17 08:08, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 03/02/2017 07:31 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: >> On Mar 2, 2017 3:51 AM, "ac via talk" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>... A guy I worked for years ago with seeing people with "will work for >>> food" signs on the side of the road in California said. >>> "America is a third world country. They just don't know it yet". ... >> The US has always been the third world; in post columbian discovery, >> after Eurasia and Africa. Typically, like the youngest in a clan it is >> favoured, demanding, petulant, selfish and envied. Just like its >> current president. ... > That is not completely fair. > > For a time the U.S. lead the world in progressive thinking. > For example the idea of rebuilding things after WWII instead of seaking > huge war reparations. > I would argue that the 50s to the 70's were the summit of progressive > U.S. society. > > In that period they managed to screw a lot of things up but the general > trend was for a more open society and that has clearly reversed. > > Now the best you can say is "America. The longest life expectancy of all > third world countries" . > If you want an eye opener take a look at the CIA world statistics web > site(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/). > Its their own facts not something cooked up by those "lefty-leaning U.N. > types". > >> As for america not knowing it yet. That too is a condition of the young.
I remember we used to have a lot of LUG meetings and LAN parties back in the States. Times have changed, I reckon that these things are more or less a thing of the past. Nowadays it's not so convenient for me to attend LUG meetings. I feel it's important to do so, if one is into open-source operating systems. As my children get older, perhaps they will join me for some LUG meetings. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
