OT: (Was Re: Re[2]: [Mingw-users] Fwd: UWIN Licensing,)

[Paul G. <pga...@te...>]

Hi folks,

	Been really busy the last few days, so, in an attempt to get 
back in the flow of things, here's a bit of OT rambling...

On 23 Nov 2000, at 11:35, the Illustrious John van V. wrote:

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> Hahaha, happy thanksgiving folks !!
> 
> I really didnt mean to start a religous war, honest.
> 
> It was just a heads-up about licensing in the Posix/Win32 arena.
> 
> I'm personally going to use it for operations while tuning the MinGW install
> for the same + compiling gnu releases, and perl6.


> So have a happy,  did Columbus discover America, we know not, who did is up to
> conjecture.  My theory is that it was a Finn :)

	Well, most recent info states that, in fact, "America" as we 
know it today (The North American Continent) was discovered tens 
of thousands of years ago by a bunch of cold native peoples from 
Siberia.  The US, in fact, is but a small part of that North 
American Continent (What somone wrongly called "America" -- more 
accurately, what existed for a governing body at the time was a 
group of native americans who gave the US a model to use for 
something called "democracy").
	A few hundred years ago (appx 800 CE), a bunch of bored, 
Northern Celts (aka Vikings) decided to check out what was on 
the other side of what seemed to be a very large portion of a 
body of water which stretched as far south as what we now call 
the European Continent and had no apparent western shore.
	These particular explorers stumbled on to one of the islands 
which are now considered to be part of what we now know as 
Canada, met some other folks who shared some of their beliefs, 
and tried to make a living on the Northeastern tundra of North 
America...mostly they succeeded until the climate changed...then 
those who didn't starve to death probably moved sw to get to a 
warmer part of the planet, putting them on the NW shore of 
Canada (North Atlantic) nearly 600 years before a certain 
Spainard gained his Queens approval/backing for exploration.

	In reality, "Thanksgiving" as a day of rememberance didn't 
exist until sometime in the mid to late 19th century.  Today, it 
is not much more than an opportunity for people to celebrate a 
sense of familial community while debating who wins the football 
game, followed immediately by that other, and most celebrated 
pass-time of US Familial Tradition, Shopping.

	Puts a whole new light on what "Thanksgiving" is, don't you 
think...?

	Peace,

		Paul G.

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