LL-L 'Politics' 2006.09.11 (01) [D/E]

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L O W L A N D S - L *11 September 2006 * Volume 01
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates [wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L 'Politics' 2006.09.10 (02) [D/F]

    From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
    Subject: Politics

    Om deze reden zijn de huidige ontwikkelingen in Groot-Brittannië (b.v.
betreffende Wales en
    Schotland) heel interessant en opmerkelijk......
    Groeten,
    Reinhard/Ron

And England.  We're a country too, not some sort of Default Great Britain.  And
unlike Wales and Scotland, we haven't had our own independent governing body
since 1705.
 
Paul

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From: Obiter Dictum [obiterdictum at mail.ru]
Subject: LL-L 'Politics' 2006.09.09 (01) [E]

> * E.g.,
> ö land Islands/Ahvenanmaa: .ax (Finland .fi)
> Antarctica: .aq (various)
> Christmas Island: .cx (Australia .au)
> Faroe Islands: .fo (Denmark .dk)
> Guernsey: .gg (UK .uk, .gb)
> Hong Kong: .hk (China .cn)
> Isle of Man: .im (UK .uk, .gb)
> Jersey: .je (UK .uk, .gb)
> Kalallit Nunaat/Greenland: .gl (Denmark .dk)
> Macau: .mo (China .cn)
> Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands .sj (Norway .no)
> Taiwan .tw (China .cn)
> US Minor Outlying Islands: .um (USA .us)
>
This reminds the the allocation of the country letter prefixes
for radio call signs in the 1920s.
No, I am not old enought to actually remember that, of course
but I remember the explosion of African independencies
on the air in the 1960s as newly prefixed radio hams
jubilated on all frequencies to the baffling of old salts
like meself:) Odd, you could hear even weak signals from
Africa very well in the Pacific.

Vlad Lee

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Politics 

Paul:

> And England.

Indeed.  Point well taken.  And the obvious choice .en appears to be available.

Vlad:

> Odd, you could hear even weak signals from
> Africa very well in the Pacific.

And to think that that was just a foretaste of greater and more astounding things
to come, and that the Internet as we now know it is probably going to seem
primitive in a couple of decades ...  I wonder how many people besides me
sometimes stop and think what great and exciting times we live in, despite
occasional reemergence of stupidity.  Walls have come down in more sense than
one, we are more mobile than ever, have more information at our disposal than
ever.  We would be truly amiss if we didn't take advantange of it to strive
toward the dream most of us used to consider naive.  

The mere fact that you, dear Vlad, and I can be friends, can find out how much we
have in common and, over great physical distance and despite the respective
varieties of propaganda we grew up with, can talk with each other about anything
we please ... This feels like quite the miracle to me and probably to others that
grew up during the Cold War.

Despite the somewhat preachy nature of it, I feel that this is an appropriate
thing to think about every day, all the more on September 11.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

***

"In choosing a friend, go up a step."
     Jewish Proverb

"And the Lord make you to increase and abound 
in love one toward another, and toward all men, 
even as we do toward you."
     Thessalonians 3:12 

"The well-being of mankind, 
its peace and security 
are unattainable unless and until 
its unity is firmly established."
     Bahá'u'lláh

"Goodness and evil are not equal.
Repel evil with what is better.
Then that person with whom there was hatred,
may become your intimate friend!
And no one will be granted such goodness
except those who exercise patience and self-restraint,
none but people of the greatest good fortune.
     Qur'ān (Koran) 41:34-35

"Hatred is never appeased by hatred.
Hatred is only appeased by love.
This is an eternal law."
     Verse 5,
     the Pali (Theravadin Buddhist) Dhammapada

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