[windows2000] Re: I'm not American
- From: Phillip Newberry <phillip_newberry@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:36:27 -0800 (PST)
This topic is getting old.
--- Chris Berry
<chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I recommend you immigrate to America, problem
> solved. It's not a bug,
> it's a feature! *grin*
>
> Chris Berry
> chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> ?If you have a strong enough why you can bear almost
> any how.? --Nietzsche
>
>
> Angus Macdonald wrote:
> > I have nothing against America or Americans.
> Probably as fine a continent /
> > population as you could ever hope to meet but why
> are Windows setup programs
> > so desperate to turn me into one? Take Windows
> 2003 for example. I have to
> > tell the regional settings page I'm not American
> in FIVE different places,
> > and even then it refuses to remove the American
> keyboard layout until the
> > next boot. Not only that but after all that
> clicking it STILL can't work out
> > which timezone I'm in and assumes I'm American.
> Again!
> >
> > Would it really be so hard to ask me which country
> I'm in and set the
> > defaults accordingly? I wouldn't mind changing
> them if I told it I was
> > British but happened to want an Afghan keyboard
> layout but I'm sure that
> > would be the exception, not the rule.
> >
> > Right. Rant over. I'm off to do another one.
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