[Steely Tom]

Let me know when they produce one single software product that's worth money. To the best of my knowledge, all they've come up with so far is a wide assortment of viruses, worms, and trojan horses.

[durasell]

Weren't the Poles the first to break the Enigma code?

[middie]

Stand by, the European Union and the Euro will, before 2020, become the reserve currency of the trading world replacing the U.S. dollar. Our trade policies, like our military and immigration policies of the last 5 years, have become inefficient because they have been abused for the short-term benefit of friends of this administration. As countries with the Euro buy more of our debt while they effectuate efficient domestic healthcare, farm subsidies,taxing, transportation,economic/competition, banking, credit and investment policies, we, contrariwise, continue to debase each of the above with economics that are premised on the next quarter's balance sheet rather than what is the plan over the following several years.

Software aside, the genius of what we pejoratively refer to as ''old Europe'' will eat our economic lunch.

[Milhous]

Let me know when they produce one single software product that's worth money. To the best of my knowledge, all they've come up with so far is a wide assortment of viruses, worms, and trojan horses.

Some of these central European geniuses post to sci groups on usenet. They seem to value knowledge more than money.