Pardon my asking, but I am only a poor Englishman with a small brain, what
is a Dux exactly? Is it the same as a dunce?


"John Ward" wrote in message
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Just saw my post posted - My mistake, I was only Dux of Russian, not Dux
of
the whole school, and now I can't even send a simple post correctly.
Apparently I didn't learn much! :-))

Regards,
John
"John Ward" wrote in message
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Hi Derek,

Ever since I was Dux of my school, and later studied Russian at
University for a couple more years, I've had a bit of an ear cocked
towards
such a vast culture.

Things have sure progressed since the Cold War days, and because
there
are so many of them, the pressure must always be on to come up with
something, just to be able to make your way through life, and hopefully
do
a
little better than the next bloke, so you can provide a little easier,
or
indulge your interests more, or whatever. Similarities with China, parts
of
Asia, the U.S.A.... where there are big populations?

The more National, Global, Universal your experiences/thinking get,
the
more it all keeps you thinking to the best of your abilities.

I suppose for some, the hard part then becomes how to bring everyone
else along for the ride, but that's way beyond my dumb mind!!

It is interesting, though, how one's sense of perspective changes
the
more you come to wrap your mind around (or at least, it should! ), and
that
then should lead to an ever-changing appreciation and understanding of
the
differing degrees to which were not all in the same boat.

Sorry to you, and anyone else, if this is dribbling on, but you do
seem
to have a bit of a different , broader, perspective on things, or
perhaps
many do, but you just express it more, and your advice always seems to
be
spot-on, unless one has nitpicking mode on occassionally.

Those Russkies sure can be inscrutable, they sure do lack wealth at
the
moment, and there sure are plenty of them still, despite the split up.

Regards,
John
"Derek Wildstar" wrote in message
news:Lp_Ta.137894$ye4.95979@sccrnsc01...

"John Ward" wrote in message
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Hi Derek,

That's an interesting site.

One of Katy Pluta's recent posts re graphics cards contained a
link
to
a Russian site, and the testing/comparisons were extremely well done
(well,
I thought so, anyway).

Some of those guys must really know their onions over there.

Regards,
John


To paint with a broad brush, the Russians are somewhat unscrutable
geniuses
when it comes to engineering and technology, not to mention
aeronautical
engineering, they built a Space Shuttle as well, recall. However,
there
aren't enough rubles in Lenin's Tomb to get me up in that death trap.
Recent
sad events notwithstanding.

Perhaps it's due to the lack of wealth and need for amassing of wealth
in
their culture that enables them to explore avenues of science that
have
little economic merit, it explains the whiling away the hours playing
chess
against super computers and writing computer virii.