[Info-vax] Politicizing Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[George Cornelius]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> Sorry to have to say this, but sometimes I get the impression that half
> the US population mentally is still living in the mid 19th century.

Quit reading your own country's news reports, get your feet on the
ground in the U.S., and see for yourself.  Skip the coasts, come to
the Midwest, and see if your stereotypes match reality.

Fascinating book review in the N.Y. Times recently.  There's a fellow,
apparently a Democrat, who has a thesis that tendencies towards being
conservative or liberal have a lot to do with your genetic makeup.

An interesting concept, and perhaps I'll be able to read it.  I want
to believe it's even simpler than that: you vote your pocketbook, and
if the system has been good to you you want to keep it in place
(belied by two key counterexamples, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet).

Anyway, an interesting fact was mentioned: Republicans are
generally quite accurate when asked to assess how a Democrat or
a liberal will view a given situation; Democrats, on the other
hand, tend to completely misconstrue their political opponents'
attitudes.

I take that to mean that Democrats listen to their leadership,
and their leadership presents caricatures of the opposition in
order to retain power.  Europeans would appear to have swallowed
the propaganda as well - hook, line, and sinker.

George Cornelius