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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on July 1, 2009 at 8:50am

Dan what the hell are you talking about? Part of the reason that America became the power house that we were was do to the U.K.s support. There support is alot of the reason we are still in the game. English has been one of most common spoken languages in the world for how long? You have turned a simple and good question into your own political rant! OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Russ I for one thought you were American when you first posted. Hey what are the sleep jobs paying over there? When I pass my boards and my wife finishes school we were talking about taking the kids away for a year or so. Any ideas on some sites that I might find useful? Thanks for any help

Dan Lyons said:

Mike,
Why are you apologizing for your opinion? This thread was a bait anyway. Well, they asked.

More people speak English for one reason. Until recently, we were the power to be. The standards were set many years ago when being American meant something.

The entire aviation industry is set to English for one reason. American ingenuity is what developed the world.

The reason the Chinese speak English is if they want to succeed in the world they need to converse and study in English where the leaders in the fields were.

The problem is we, as a country, are allowing them to over run us thru our stupidity in leadership, which runs this country.

If our system was so bad, then why is what they are trying to take us to, failed in every country that has it. For those who don’t understand what their goal is, it’s socialism.

If you want proof, a simple read of the proposed heath care bill will prove it. Pay special attention to page 114 and you will see whom they really care about.


Mike Fritz said:

I think the powers that be should create a place for conversations that turn political or re-explain why they don't have one...

My opinion is these kinds of threads always go bad.

I am sorry I got political..I knew better.

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on July 1, 2009 at 8:53am

Are comcast and Time Warner both in England?

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Permalink Reply by PD Laire on July 1, 2009 at 5:57pm

i think the nature of spam is that it's automated and mindless, designed to throw a bunch of crap against a wall just to see what sticks. they probably figure that the most lucrative, largest market is the U.S. market, and just go for it instead of doing the hard work of figuring out the compatibility between the website and the spam.

Russ Burt said:

OK as soon as the over sensitive patriots can desensitise......

I co-run a discussion forum, UK based and this is pretty obvious in the forum name (www.cableforum.co.uk) yet we get spammers on daily bases and a lot of them are based in america and try to spam us with american-orinetated services, for example we had a thick spammer who tried to hit us with a company in america that hired out cranes and and industrial machinery.

Yesterday we had one who spammed us about grants from the US government for college funds, all applicable to america only. So we were wondering whether it's just that spammers are thick in general or if it's an underlying assumption that a lot of americans have that any english-speaking website you go on in in american, run by and for americans.

To people in the rest of the world this is a curious assumption - I regularly use about 15 different forums and this is the only american-based one, the rest being UK based.

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