Hi Brian,
I read that paragraph again, and I think that the important word is collaboration. I simply used Tim BL as an example of someone who played a role in a complex 'web' of technologies that have contributed to what we all now enjoy online. There will be many others whom I have not mentioned, and I only realised a couple of years ago that TBL was a Brit - I thought he was American. How could we possibly identify one person who was the 'father' of what is colloquially called the Internet? I am glad that you agree that the 'Internet' is international but would question a genesis that is restricted to one country, or even worse, one person.
Frances Bell
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Chris,
I am no historian but I would like to challenge this rolling up of gun control and resistance to the rule of Brussels. Wikipedia (not entirely reliable) might be a useful starting point . Basically, gun control pre-dated EU.
I have visited USA twice (west and east coast) and felt very safe but I can't claim a representative experience, after all I was a tourist. I also hugely enjoyed my trips and the people I met. However I found these statistics interesting, see here.
Albania's stats for homicide are clearly worse than USA but generally USA has much higher % figures for homicide and suicide than European countries. It is at least worth considering whether or not this may be associated with the availability of guns rather than any in inherent difference in destructive tendencies between US and European cultures.
I am no historian but I would like to challenge this rolling up of gun control and resistance to the rule of Brussels. Wikipedia (not entirely reliable) might be a useful starting point . Basically, gun control pre-dated EU.
I have visited USA twice (west and east coast) and felt very safe but I can't claim a representative experience, after all I was a tourist. I also hugely enjoyed my trips and the people I met. However I found these statistics interesting, see here.
Albania's stats for homicide are clearly worse than USA but generally USA has much higher % figures for homicide and suicide than European countries. It is at least worth considering whether or not this may be associated with the availability of guns rather than any in inherent difference in destructive tendencies between US and European cultures.
Moodle in English -> Lounge -> Another tragedy -> Re: Another tragedy
by Frances Bell -
Postscript:
I found this a centred on the tragedy but with an awareness of others.
I found this a centred on the tragedy but with an awareness of others.
Moodle in English -> Lounge -> Another tragedy -> Re: Another tragedy
by Frances Bell -
N Hansen and Bryan,
I am certainly not intending to poke a stick in my neighbour's eye. I feel great sympathy for those touched by this tragic event. I have found the posts on the right to bear arms to be very illuminating, and I don't feel any sense of superiority for my own country (now or in the 19th century). As someone pointed out, criminals can obtain guns fairly easily in UK, and there has been a spate of youth on youth killings recently with knives and guns. Having listened to the wisdom of posts here and done a bit more reading, I think that laws on gun control may become tighter in UK and USA regardless of their different constitutions.
However I am not so sure about "but sometimes we produce .... the means to communicate via a global network of computer". I thought that Tim Berners Lee was a Brit working in Switzerland so it might be better to think of the Internet/WWW as an international collaboration
I am certainly not intending to poke a stick in my neighbour's eye. I feel great sympathy for those touched by this tragic event. I have found the posts on the right to bear arms to be very illuminating, and I don't feel any sense of superiority for my own country (now or in the 19th century). As someone pointed out, criminals can obtain guns fairly easily in UK, and there has been a spate of youth on youth killings recently with knives and guns. Having listened to the wisdom of posts here and done a bit more reading, I think that laws on gun control may become tighter in UK and USA regardless of their different constitutions.
However I am not so sure about "but sometimes we produce .... the means to communicate via a global network of computer". I thought that Tim Berners Lee was a Brit working in Switzerland so it might be better to think of the Internet/WWW as an international collaboration
Hello again Rebecca,
Your posting history here suggests someone who may have strayed into the wrong forum. Have you tried http://www.big-boards.com/kw/religion/?
Regular posters to Moodle occasionally diverge into apparently unrelated topics.
Your two posts have both been about religion. I suggest that if you want to find out about arranged marriages, you consult reliable sources, including people from cultures where such marriages occur.
You might also like to research trolling.
Your posting history here suggests someone who may have strayed into the wrong forum. Have you tried http://www.big-boards.com/kw/religion/?
Regular posters to Moodle occasionally diverge into apparently unrelated topics.
Your two posts have both been about religion. I suggest that if you want to find out about arranged marriages, you consult reliable sources, including people from cultures where such marriages occur.
You might also like to research trolling.