Von Neumann machines. The key to space and much else. 2433

: : : : : is : great know black, : this the : : flag an : : aircraft : : : : Nor do you have an empire, a senior currency, military superiority : : on the oceans. Just rubbing it in. : : : No empire. No military superiority. The pound is still the strongest : : unit : : of currency in the world. $1.80 to the £1.00. Just rubbing it in. : : Hell, at one time Tunisian dinars were $4 per dinar. Does that mean : that : Tunisian currency is stronger than US's? No! : : Until the term "petropound" enters the vernacular as the term : "petrodollar" is now, you don't have the strongest currency. Even BP : buys : oil with dollars, of which they must have on reserve. THAT is called : dollar hegemony. : You still buy insurance, and not from Tunisia. Who paid when your : shuttles exploded? Who do you trust? Britain took your premiums, and : will : continue to take your premiums. You have no trade with Tunisia. Britain : has as many Mcdonald's, KFCs, Pizza Huts per 100,000 people as the USA. That doesn't equate to progress. Germany is cleaner than the UK and has a better public transportation system. And better beer!

I'd have to dispute on the beer, but that's a matter of taste. You can keep your Budwieser, Miller, Rolling Rock and Coor's Light, not distinguishable from the water down drainage of a dishwasher and definitely doesn't equate to progress. Wasn't one of your beers advertised as having no after-taste? It had no before-taste either. Samuel Adams isn't too bad, but no match for Theakston's Olde Peculiar.

: What the UK has in the USA is not a closely guarded secret, but it's a : whole : lot more than you think or know. Do you have any idea how many Brits : died : in the WTC? They were not there as tourists. Many people from different countries died in the WTC. Yes.

: The Americans are a highly industrious people, they work hard and are : very productive. They work for themselves and Britain, have since they : were picking cotton for the English textile industry and buying : Chippendale : furniture to copy. What you mean to say is that we pattern our power elite after your own.

Of course I mean to say it. I prefer example, it's obviously carried the correct message.

Spooks infiltrated with oil barons. MI-6 with BP like the CIA and Gulf. But is that progress or only a better way for the haves to have more? I don't doubt that the UK taught us how to run sugar from years of experience with opium. And before you write that off as criminals and the like; I'm talking about our governments!

You've found yet more examples. What you mean to say is that you pattern your power elite after our own.

: The UK has invested wisely, and not in Tunisia. : The pound is still the strongest unit of currency in the world. $1.80 to : the £1.00. : We are but 4 states to your 50. Just rubbing it in. Nothing to rub in. I was echoing something someone said to me.

Our country founded on the basis of the common man has allowed the elites to take over based upon what they learned from their UK counterparts. Be proud of that while inflation eats away at your slave wages. Fool!

Our country founded on the basis of the clbutt system allowed the elites to take over based on the Norman Conquest of 1066. Britain amde a lot of money out of he slave trade, then you let them all go and now you've got ghettos. Idiot! BTW, if you want to get into a flame war, my Anglo-Saxon is better than yours, f***ing stupid ****. About the best you can manage is 'butthole', 'motherf***er' and 'jerk-off'.

Nothing sillier than an overproud America other than an overproud Brit!

Agreed, so why start it? I began with facts, you reverted to flame. Androcles.