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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:37:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <vqpe9s$208pc$1@dont-email.me> References: <vqas2l$2lru6$1@dont-email.me> <memo.20250306093653.8812D@jgd.cix.co.uk> <vqnare$1fru0$1@dont-email.me> <vqncpt$1c1bk$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:37:01 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="52eee4d16c6aadbcc3f58e38bba61ba9"; logging-data="2106156"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18u1CSg93vdOuiC9KtcSpCbkUdKZWoRKJo=" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (VMS/Multinet) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YRGf/Xdko18OQSRXsKfxOM9p5Qk= Bytes: 1948 On 2025-03-10, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> wrote: > On 3/10/2025 14:25, Simon Clubley wrote: > >> BTW, I wonder if Mr Trump realises that you can't even make modern >> high-performance processors without critical European technology... > > I wouldn't give him the respect that the honorific "Mr" conveys. > Over here, it's just a polite way some people use to refer to someone in a neutral way in situations like this. No respect is intended by the use of the word "Mr". OTOH, there is/was a use that is directly applicable here. :-) I don't know if they still do it these days, but in times gone by some teachers would talk to a misbehaving child in this way: "Mr Smith." <slight pause> "What makes you think _that_ was acceptable ?" Simon. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.