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To: maceng2 who wrote (38090)	8/16/2002 6:04:07 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

An amazing twist that is utterly untrue at this particular point in the "EU". Read the Article that Nadine posted the URL for, Pearly. It is a very interesting thesis. I sincerely hope that you Brits go no further with EU, for your own sake, and ours too. IMO, the EU "Command" setup is going to send them down the same path that the Communists went, and end up destroying the economies over there.

To: maceng2 who wrote (38090)	8/16/2002 6:32:33 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

An amazing twist that is utterly untrue at this particular point in the "EU". I agree with you. In my view 90% of the Steven Den Beste article are off the mark. I have no time today to discuss or refute the remaining 10%. the Europeans had contributed a fair amount to the refinement and enhancement of new technologies, but were very very poor at actually creating really new things. When you ask what kinds of really major innovations have come out of the US in the last fifty years, the answers flow easily: the transistor, integrated circuits, the laser, the computer, the Internet, modern plastics, the cell phone, television, the LED, fiberoptics, ultrasound and MRI, many completely new kinds of drugs, CAD, and a lot of other things in many areas. Refuting just two of many wrong claims: the first binary computer was built by Konrad Zuse in Berlin in the 1930s, years before von Neumann conceived his architecture. zib.de The Internet a US innovation? WWW, the very medium we are using for discussion, was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. w3.org But Steven Den Beste doesn't care about facts, he forces them to fit his propaganda.