Tim Cook wrote:
> Not really.  Sure, the British Empire was pretty much top of the pile. 
> But they could just as easily have chosen Paris, Jerusalem, Cairo, Rome,
> or a random spot in the middle of the Sahara and marked it with a little
> monument.  Regardless of *why* a particular place was chosen, the
> important part is the fact that it *was* chosen, and agreed upon, and
> thenceforth used by everyone.

Yep. People are still arguing about little endian vs big endian byte
ordering though :)

(and then there's those people who drive on the wrong side of the road)

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