jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (02/17/86)
I had thought I was more or less quoting Alexis de Toqueville,
another European in l'ESA, in referring to America's peculiar
brand of socialism. (You might call it "statistical socialism.")
Prob'ly misquoted. I was educated partly in an English Benedictine
monastery (here in the States), and know something about the
individual power of the collective versus the collective power
of individuals. I should, perhaps, have thought that the people
to whom I was responding knew less than I assumed; but the
question seemed to presume some pre-knowledge of American
social systems.
I wish to declare, as a result of several postings, that I did
not wish to insult anybody with my original posting, but merely
to respond to what appeared to be an insult from one who should
know better. Later postings showed that he was not, in fact,
as aware of these differences as I had erroneously assumed, and
that therefore no insult had been intended.
CAN WE STOP THIS NOW PLEASE?
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Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (02/18/86)
In article <263@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes: > >I wish to declare, as a result of several postings, that I did >not wish to insult anybody with my original posting, but merely >to respond to what appeared to be an insult from one who should >know better. Later postings showed that he was not, in fact, >as aware of these differences as I had erroneously assumed, and >that therefore no insult had been intended. > >CAN WE STOP THIS NOW PLEASE? >-- > > Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} ditto. -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department <disclaimer> University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"