Re: 2.7 (=~e)

On 2008-02-07, Roy Lanek <lanek-tnsfOxNVUhtWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> By the way, to use wikipedia.org on geopolitics in general, and on the former
> Soviet Union in particular, is like to use the Vatican as reference for
> telling on ...?! the 'position of the lotus'; Microsoft on Ion; and Wander
> [Switzerland] of the chocolate beverage Ovomaltine on the Russian vodka
> Stolichnaya.

Trusting the actual content of wikipedia... *shudder*. But there's 
some hope that they can get the date of an actual event correct. 
(At least the Wikipedia pages on those subjects agreed with the 
February_7 listing, which is better than things often are.)

> Moreover: good luck--but hey: good riddance--to call the *creation* of the EU
> [perhaps incorporated Europe?] the "birth of an empire."

Much lesser things are called empires.

-- 
Tuomo