On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Scott Schultz wrote: > You mean Steve in his original post about "traits of a backward nation"? A > little tongue-in-cheek, maybe, but given what I know of his political > leanings I'd asume he's serious. It wasn't Steve's post that surprised me, > it was the number of respondents who appeared to completely miss the > implication and instead used it to try and prove their own ideas about what > other countries ought to be considered "backward". No, not in the least. I was just kind of floored that Steve's utterly unsubtle point had apparently genuinely escaped anyone. > /shrug I know a number of people that would agree with him. You're surely > not going to start ridiculing anyone because their viewpoints don't coincide > with yours? All the time. But not here. pe