[geeks] Socialized medicine [was Re: nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro]

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 26, 2008, at 10:48 , Mike Meredith wrote:

> Sure, but I'm not sure we see much immigration to the UK amongst them.
> Certainly the most problematic immigrants seem to be a tiny minority  
> of
> the guests from India/Pakistan/middle-east/etc.

It only takes a few to raise hell, and even the "good" ones will end  
up getting in your way as you try to go after the bad ones.

America has found that out the hard way when dealing with south  
American immigrants.

Even the hard working "real citizens" will balk and interfere if you  
go after their bad eggs.

> Whilst some of their operations were farcical, they were in the
> minority.

I know some of the IRA were pretty nasty... but they were quite  
different from most other terrorist groups from everything I've read.   
For one thing, they hit quite a few government/military targets, and  
tried to avoid collateral damage, while most other groups seem to be  
far more reckless.

Also, the splinter groups that formed seem to largely ignore the  
"official" IRA an awful lot, even during peace talks.

It seems to me that a lot of them ended up just being criminals, and I  
read a couple of books about some of them making quite a bit of money  
just selling weapons and doing very little for "the cause".

I guess that happens in any situation like that though.

> I think it's called "islamification" over here, but still a pretty
> piss-poor word :)

What good is a language if it isn't flexible enough to let you make up  
the word you need?

Akin to: It's a damned poor mind that can't think of more than one way  
to spell a word."


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