Born in England, raised in England and paid by for by the English tax payers. Trust me, she’s English.

By your definition there would be no such thing as an American then?

“Elizabeth II of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (a.k.a Windosr) is really German, not English”.

Her mother was 100% Scottish.

That is because the Queen is not the leader of this country, she is merely Senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Relations.

I think you’ll find Tony, like Dubya, is quite preoccupied with Iraq, though.

Cheesy cheap shot Phil. I expect a better form of cheap shots from you than that when it comes to politics.

Has anyone explored the fact that because Berners-Lee didn’t try and keep his discoveries (I should say implementations since the ideas preceded him) as some proprietary money scheme but instead made them open and free, that all of us live in a different world today?

I wonder what the world would have been if people had his mentality rather than the S&M (Sales & Marketing) approach to technological advancement.

I wonder what the world would have been if Sony made open standards instead of deliberately hijacking their own success by making it proprietary. Yes, I’m bitter about my mini-disc.

You do realize, of course, that Elizabeth II of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (a.k.a Windosr) is really German, not English…