22nd March 2003, 5:03 PM
I remember that incident, but I wasn't aware people were actually laughing about it. You Canadians sure have a knack for finding the WORST examples of humanity and showing them on TV as "standard American consensus". We Americans did not find that tragedy amusing for the most part.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)