This is why bing should drop dead

[Outlaw71]

Lol, ok I'll clear up my location for ya... I was born in Vancouver, British Columbia... I'm heading back to Vancouver very soon... and I'm currently in Indiana for perhaps another week or two.

Does that help?

 

[mikedt]

I don't know where outlaw posts from, Canada or the U.S., but both are "America" geographically speaking, "North America" to be exact.

The word "America" is taken to mean, "The Unites States," erroneously in terms of geography, and has been for a long time. But people who do that, call The United States, "America," are doing so out of tradition, not to be correct as to geography, so it's accepted.

It is "The United States of America." Nobody refers to Canada or Mexico, etc as "...of America," or "..of North America," but again, geographically they are.

But geography is one of your favorite subjects.

Ah OK thanks.

It's the same when I say 'China', I mean 'The People's Republic of China'. which is not Taiwan, Republic of China. Although the government and many here like to think otherwise.

 

[Btros]

When you're overseas though, like mikedt is (in China), or when I was living in Japan, when people say "America," they mean just the U.S. So I'm sure that's where his post came from.

 

[Outlaw71]

Yeah, but that doesn't mean we can't educate them one at a time (good God that could take...... WEEKS!). I can remember when I used to refer to people from that part of the world as 'Oriental'. Then one day my friend told me, "I'm not a rug, I'm a person. I'm an 'Asian' who owns an oriental rug. Can you dig it"?

No harm in educating misconceptions.

 

[Eugene]

I fail to see why anyone is surprised by this! Micro$oft has gotten rich--and powerful--by copying other people's ideas. Remember DOS? Can you say cheap, crippled, single-user, single-tasking rip-off of UNIX? Or how about Windows? Ever heard of Mac?

Actually Windows ripped off X windows mot Mac, Mac ripped off X windows too. Apple is just as bad with the steal ideas and claim them as MS.

I wish they would just give up with bing, its gets old going to the MSKB and looking for something and then having to go to google to do a site search of the MSBK to find what you want.

 

[carmendiva]

I love bing...then again my predominant phone i use now is an Htc hd7(with mytouch 4g being secondary...usually, just used when i go to parties or clubs to take pix lol)