Thus spoke Ramon Diaz-Uriarte (on 2006-09-27 11:01): >> When the Samurai of medieval Japan were confronted >> with new 'battlefield language', e.g. early Shotguns, >> they resisted because one could push any peasant > > shouldn't this be "they [the Samurai] did not resist"?
The "resisted" believing all the buzz, e.g.: "armies made of dudes with guns" ... (and tried to preserve their Art, which did not work in the end - "the Art of Killing" was replaced by "mass production of deaths" on the battlefield ...) Regards, M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
