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Buzz Aldrin knocks out a reporter
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Singapura on July 20, 2008, 10:05:39 pm ---
--- Quote ---When I finished school at 16
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Ah, that explains a lot ;)
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Thanks.
Most of your reply belongs to the P n R forum.
I am speaking about past history, not current events. Allied ignorance allowed WW2 to happen. What result came out of it, benefitted the US and their space program, raised the bar on human tragedy and suffering and provided a mechanism for understanding to provide a way for history to repeat itself time and time again.
Congrats to Buzz for making us remember the space program and the moon landings and those who perished to achieve it. Even though his act upon that sad individual shows again how violence and conflict reflects and invokes history yet again.
Singapura:
As Winston Churchill said, "History is written by the victor." My reply was just pointing out inaccuracies in your interpretation. I don't need politics to do that. I'm a big fan of Buzz and his colleagues. But as the text on the plaque they left behind mentions: We came in peace for all mankind. Not only Americans. It was an accumulation of international scientific breakthroughs that put a man on the moon. As for current events; now more than ever the US should realize it needs other countries just as much as other countries need the US. There's not a word of politics in that.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 20, 2008, 03:35:23 pm ---
--- Quote ---We can thank Bill Gates for bringing the price down with respect to Windows and having a computer on every desktop....(and helping out Steve Jobs by funding OS X).
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That was a joke right ? Yeah, that has to be a joke.
If not please explain about the funding of OS X...
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Umm.. well, whatever people want to believe about Gates I guess. In any case. Microsoft made software for Apple computers for years. Don't know (or care) if they still do it now. I'm also not aware of Microsoft directly funding OSX developement. The only money I'm aware of that flowed from MS to Apple is the bailout in 1997. It pissed a lot of Apple fans off, but without it and the court case it was trying to fight against MS, it's probably unlikely Apple could have survived any longer.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 21, 2008, 02:26:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on July 21, 2008, 01:09:28 pm ---I'm also not aware of Microsoft directly funding OSX developement.
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Go reread the post, he was referring to Ross Perot. And, yes, Ross Perot provided a lot of funding for OSX.
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Oops, yes indeed. I missed that looking over the original post. Corrected then.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Singapura on July 21, 2008, 09:45:45 am ---As Winston Churchill said, "History is written by the victor." My reply was just pointing out inaccuracies in your interpretation. I don't need politics to do that. I'm a big fan of Buzz and his colleagues. But as the text on the plaque they left behind mentions: We came in peace for all mankind. Not only Americans. It was an accumulation of international scientific breakthroughs that put a man on the moon. As for current events; now more than ever the US should realize it needs other countries just as much as other countries need the US. There's not a word of politics in that.
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Agreed. Thank you for pointing that out to me. :cheers:
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