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To: Leifur
My english is limited so I am not sure I fully understand you . . . I am particularly not sure what you mean by "elitist."
"Elitist" comes from the word "elite," which means "the best of the best."

If I use the term I am referring to the socialist project of trying to convince people of the preposterous notion that government can be, and will be, composed of people who not only have the best interest of the people at heart, but are so smart that it would be foolish of you to retain your own freedom rather than exchanging it for letting them take care of you.

Ps. Could you tell me how to let the text be leaning like you did with the quote?
The short answer is by using the code, <I> to start the leaning text, called "italics" in English - and by using the code </I> to switch back to normal text.

The intermediate-length answer is that

The long answer is found in HTML Sandbox, among other places.

I will now repeat all of the text above, using a special code to replace "<" everywhere I used that code in the text. You can inspect it, then copy-and-paste it into a "Post Reply" window, and then click the "preview" button on the screen, just below where the text appears. The preview will show the effects of the code, rather than the code itself - and if you want to play around by deleting some of the <p> codes for example, you can do preview again and see the effects changing the code has.

<I>My english is limited so I am not sure I fully understand you . . . I am particularly not sure what you mean by "elitist." </I> <blockquote>

"Elitist" comes from the word "elite," which means "the best of the best."<P>

If I use the term I am referring to the socialist project of trying to convince people of the preposterous notion that government can be, <I>and will be,</I> composed of people who not only have the best interest of the people at heart, but are <b>so smart that it would be foolish of you to retain your own freedom rather than exchanging it for letting <I>them</I> take care of you. </b> </blockquote>

<I>Ps. Could you tell me how to let the text be leaning like you did with the </I> <blockquote>The short answer is by using the code, <I> to start the leaning text, called "italics" in English - and by using the code </I> to switch back to normal text. <P>

The intermediate-length answer is that<UL>

<LI>codes to change the text, and to insert links and even pictures, is called "HyperText Markup Language," usually abbreviated "HTML."<P>

<LI>This web site accepts HTML codes, but it also does some good things without them <I>provided that you use <b>no</b> HTML.</I> Specifically, if you do use HTML for italics you <I>also</I> must use HTML to explicitly specify paragraph breaks. If you do not do that (by inserting <p>at the end of each paragraph), when your text is displayed all the paragraphs will run together and your text will be hopelessly hard to read. <P>

The other thing you might miss is the fact that if you do use HTML, merely citing a web page address by typing its URL will <I>not</I> produce a hyperlink to that page. The address will appear simply as plain text. </UL> <p>

The long answer is found in <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/802064/posts">HTML Sandbox</a>, among other places. </blockquote>

8 posted on 03/02/2005 5:50:00 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: schlicht; conservatism_IS_compassion

Quote from Schlicht: Thanks Leifur caught your post at Healing iraq,very interesting...

Thank you, that is essentially the same as I have been saying on this thread, please tell us your thoughts about this.

What should be done with the Iraqi oil money in your opinion? Should the Iraqi government use it in various projects, paying for and running health care, education and various social engineering projects, or should it be distributed to the people of Iraq, and thus making themselfs responsible for their own affairs directly, not the government, wich can slide into tyranny if it has to much power in my opinion.


9 posted on 04/01/2005 9:23:58 AM PST by Leifur (Time for regime change in Europe: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1351257/posts)
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