>>You're a better man than I, Gungha Dhun. I have no interest in sweating through learning a new OS. I don't log onto the computer to use the OS. The more it stays in the background and lets me focus on the programs I want to use, the better, IMHO, of course.
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>Mike
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>It was Gunga Din.
>How times change.
>When I was a kid we learned that poem in school.
>With enough Guinness in me, I can probably still recite it.
>I was going to read it to my grandkids but when I look at it with today's eyes, it reads like a racist, imperialist rant.
>In fact, it was back then but we didn't know it.

As one jingoist here said "I loved my kippling... kippled whenever I could". And Kippling was a jingoist himself. If that british piece I once saw (on PBS, probably) is true, he sent his own son to die in a war, just to prove he isn't just another old fart sending others' kids to die. And there it said his post was literally war and imperial propagandistic PR. So... in his books he only made it unofficial, but kept the same engine churning.