>>>>>>>>According to this : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11515879 it looks like Phone 7 will be available in the UK before the U.S....
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>>>>>>>Lucky you!
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>>>>>>>This thing is going to die an ugly death, like every other Microsoft hardware product. The Microsoft name means less than zero in that market.
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>>>>>>Like XBox?
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>>>>>Good point.
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>>>>I'm getting Halo Reach as a birthday present tomorrow (not a big suprise there).
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>>>>New ways to kill aliens... MWAA HAA HAA!!
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>>>I bet you are a demon at it ;-) Happy birthday a day in advance.
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>>It was more fun when I was a kid in Massachusetts - Columbus day (Oct 12 - not a Monday holiday) was a holiday!
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>And the biggest farce ever. :o) I mean really, a criminal who enslaved and killed the Taino on Hispaniola and didn't even know where he was nor land on North America?
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>In school growing up in Wisconsin, I learned it was most likely Leif Ericsson (and not Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci ) or possibly even his father (Erik the Red - a known murderer banished and so he had to find a new place to be - although no records other than Greenland) or another Viking earlier than that. Most likely Leif Ericsson though.
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>How about Viking Day or better yet Clovis day? Of course we now know that the clovis were not the oldest humans on North America but AFAIK, no one knows who was. Most lands were discovered/settled by migration anyway so how about migration day?

I'm not sure the Vikings deserve a holiday, either, what with all the raping and pillaging.

It has been said that Columbus was the greatest Democrat of them all. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, returned not knowing where he had been, and did it all on borrowed money ;-)