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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:26:06 GMT
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To be honest I still have no idea what anyone is talking about, but:
If English is the unofficial language of the Internet, then perhaps the
unofficial flavor of English should be American. After all, they invented the
Internet.
--Denz (a Saudi)
lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Brian Roach) writes:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Pete Hardie wrote:
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> > Can you point out some statistics that support this - I know that the
> > British hold this view, but I wonder about Canadians, Aussies, Indians,
> > etc.
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> A shining example of this is the market capitalization value for a company
> traded on the NYSE. If you look this up (online, newspaper, etc), you will
> find it is expressed in millions. AOL, for example, has a market cap. of
> $42,149.43 (mil) .
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> - Brian Roach
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| In article <F40zJI.Gqr@lugnet.com>, Denzel Beachnut <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) Therefore as Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, web pages should use British English. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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| (...) Actually No! * The Packet Switching technology that underlies the Internet was developed at the National Physics Laboratory in England. * The HyperText Transfer Protocol that underlies the World Wide Web was invented by an Englishman at CERN (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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| (...) A shining example of this is the market capitalization value for a company traded on the NYSE. If you look this up (online, newspaper, etc), you will find it is expressed in millions. AOL, for example, has a market cap. of $42,149.43 (mil) . - (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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