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Todd Lehman wrote:
> > So where is lugnet.loc.gb then? It itself is a top level domain -
> You're serious, then? Hmm, I don't think I've never ever seen it used.
> Do you remember where did you heard/saw that?
I've never seen it used - I've only ever seen a place offering you to
sell you one once - that was deep in the Internet-Admin sites.
I got it off http://www.rtw.com.au/internet/suffixes.html - not exactly
the most official place to find it but they must have got it from
somewhere.
> But I got that information straight from the CIA. :-)
> Please correct me if it's wrong. Here is the URL:
> http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/uk.html#gov
OK, the name UK of GB and NI first came into use in 1927 - I've never
heard of it but it seems logically and so correct (in this case). Some
of the stuff on the CIA UK page were a bit misleading - constitutional
monarchy is one thing - we aren't ruled by our monarchy - the Queen
reads the list of laws to be introduced and discussed by Parliament -
this Parliament has been voted in by the people. Many of the political
party names have been spelt wrong like Labour has been spelt Labor -
although this is the US spelling on a US site the Labour Party is a
proper noun and so can't be changed. Besides that it's quite
interesting reading about my country from an outside perspective.
The International disputes section is cool - we are battling with
everyone.
--
Carbon 60
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| On Sun, 30 May 1999 21:43:03 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) I thought that we were, but that the monarch, recently, kept out of the affairs of government, leaving it to Parliament to decide. I could be wrong.... (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) You're serious, then? Hmm, I don't think I've never ever seen it used. Do you remember where did you heard/saw that? (...) But I got that information straight from the CIA. :-) Please correct me if it's wrong. Here is the URL: (URL) .loc.uk to (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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