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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.spitfire.i.gajendra.net!not-for-mail From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:01:59 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: <vqpj97$ftp$1@reader1.panix.com> References: <vqas2l$2lru6$1@dont-email.me> <vqnare$1fru0$1@dont-email.me> <vqncpt$1c1bk$1@dont-email.me> <vqpe9s$208pc$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:01:59 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="spitfire.i.gajendra.net:166.84.136.80"; logging-data="16313"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Bytes: 2235 Lines: 32 In article <vqpe9s$208pc$1@dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote: >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". I'm reminded of the New York Times, which has an editorial policy to use such a title when writing about anyone: "Mr So-and-so" or "Ms Such-and-such". This includes people that are otherwise reviled, historically or otherwise. It was jarring, sometime shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to read about "Mr Bin-laden" in the Times. >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 ?" Still done. Sometimes even parents do that to kids. "Just what do you think you're doing, Mister?" - Dan C.