[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org>
" 
" On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:03:11 -0500 (EST), Sandwich Maker wrote:
" > it didn't work so well in 70 years of the soviet union.
" 
" Indeed not, although I wouldn't call the SU system communist.

agreed; the bolsheviks co-opted the revolution -and- the russian
imperial system and just put a veneer of communism over it.

" > the pilgrims seeking freedom of worship [tr: freedom to oppress
" > others] were a bunch of reformist wingnuts.  
" 
" Actually the lunatic fringe of the reformist wingnuts :) 

i should've said -threadless- reformist wingnuts...	;^>

" Indeed. Protestant non-conformists were seen as less of a danger than
" Catholics (who *had* tried to rebel). In fact wasn't Maryland originally
" a Catholic colony ?

that sounds right to me.
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