Re: [NTLK] credit where it's due, was: More MacPad Rumors

From: Dennis B. Swaney <romad_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue Jul 14 2009 - 12:13:06 EDT

Lord Groundhog wrote:
> ~~~ On 2009/07/13 23:56, Peter Fraser at pjfraser@mac.com wrote ~~~
>
>> Are we're also here in this forum because of Reagan, Bush #1, and Clinton,
>> since they were the overall leaders during that time period. Who was the UN
>> General Secretary back then, Boutros-Boutros Ghali?
>
> Well if you want to go that route, we're also here because of our parents,
> grand-parents, etc., because of those circumstances under which all our
> forebears met and conceived, the whole range of geopolitical and other
> circumstances that determined who lived and who died in each generation
> ...all the way back through the various climatic and ecological events over
> vast millenia and eventually, back into that great Point Of Controversy
> (which we must NOT get into here, lest we violate the forum rules!): do we
> end up thanking the blind processes of evolution, a creator, some
> combination of the two, or just throw up our hands and say "whatever"?
>

Well, my wife refers to computers as the "instruments from Hell" ;)

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."
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