Subj : [OT] Iraq, USA, World, politics, etc. (Was Re: Mandrake vs Suse) To : comp.os.linux From : Matt Date : Wed Aug 25 2004 11:52 pm SkipC wrote: > Matt wrote in message > news:... >> IME most of Europe will claim you're the arrogant ones ;). And you've >> just said the French are arrogant. >> So you hate Europe? Europeans? France and Germany? How is the UK doing, >> since we bomb innocent people in a quest for oil too? >> > Most of Europe must have a very distorted view of we Americans. Probably goes both ways. > We're not proud and arrogant, like many claim we are. It seems others in > the world are arrogant though for judging us so harshly. We are proud > only in the sense we dearly love and respect our country. Terrorists who > attack us are enemies and thats only by their choice. We have chosen to > defend our land against such attacks even if we have to take the war > elsewhere to prevent future hostility. Attacking countries for their oil > is the last thing on our minds, of that I can assure you. If you could assure me of that, you wouldn't be allowed to say so. > We just want to live our lives in peace. So do the Iraqies. > We're also the biggest charitable contributor to third-world countries. I can't find a source, but I'd need to put this into perspective. Per person? Per $1M GDP? > I pay very high taxes and many of my dollars are sent overseas to > support countries who have much less. Likewise. > How can the world think we're arrogant and only want to take other > peoples oil? What pure rubbish! Its a lie! Your President is not popular in Europe. We are given the impression that he didn't get the job fairly, didn't go to war fairly (WMD...) and has the wrong motives for going to war. He apparently cares nothing for the world, and everything for America and its economy. This could well be the media's fault, but I'm sure your media is equally unfair towards whoever they don't like. >> At least give a reason you don't like Suse or Mandrake other then >> politics. The question and answer should be technical, let the end user >> (i.e. OP) decide his/her own politics, as these need not be a factor in >> making a decision on what to buy until the last stage, if at all. >> > As for reasons, I've tried every major distro their is, starting back 4 > or 5 years ago. I've even given the now defunct Corel Linux a good test > run. I've also fully tested and tried out Suse and Mandrake. RedHat is > simply much more stable, well documented and more well supported than > anything else out there. Major corporations in the US would never trust > their OS to some company based over in Germany or France. Sorry, but > with the time difference and language barriers being what they are, > they'd never make such a move. Neither would I. I'd much rather have > someone who can speak fluent English on the other end of the telephone, > which by the way RedHat's phone support is better than Suse or Mandrake > by far. Like I said, I've test driven them all (for miles and miles). > RedHat's simply better, not to mention it's made in the good ole USA > :-). I'll be fair, I haven't had the need to test any distro to this length, or for such an environment. I would still be skeptical of rejecting a forign product because it's foreign. If Mandrake and Suse were British companies, would that make any difference? Since then, language isn't a problem, time zones can be accomodated (if they want business, they'll work late), and Blair is best buddies with Bush? -- Matt -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- .