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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: kids these days
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On 4/10/2024 8:09 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:04:02 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 20:29:23 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
>>
>>> john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:02:09 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On a sunny day (Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:50:47 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>>> <JL@gct.com> wrote in <eu2ofjhoa2566a02apvlhjlvil4gaq0536@4ax.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:11:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:24:38 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>>>>> <JL@gct.com> wrote in <7bglfjtll1os4g6pfqhf1i7jl0acmrvlqv@4ax.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:13:56 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:15:02 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On a sunny day (Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:36:26 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>>>>>>>> <JL@gct.com> wrote in <kb3jfjpejs47hqjd00fis20eog8de19ae8@4ax.com>:

<snip>

>>>> It makes no sense that europeans are a zillion miles from the places
>>>> that grow chocolate, but make such good stuff. The Ritter Sport dark
>>>> stuff is great.
>>>
>>> Nah, it’s all from the sun-drenched tropical mountains of Holland.
>>
>> There's actually a ski resort in the Netherlands.
> 
> Yeah, they probably made mountains out of all the submerged land they
> reclaimed from their North Sea coast. Never forget they'd invented
> windmills centuries before they ever caught-on elsewhere as a solution
> to green energy. ;-)

Windmills have been around for lot longer than the Netherlands. 
Wikipedia dates them back to 700 - 900 AD in Persia.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney