We had a tremendous effort to get us here so we cannot at all take second place for granted or be disappointed we didn't get the win because we've had extraordinary pace and it was a tremendous effort from everyone.

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"I think the most important lesson to be learned is that you just can't take things for granted when you get a warning sign that people's lives could be endangered, " he said.

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Yet there are plenty of people of other countries, many Mexicans for example, would gladly pay 33% in taxes on their wages if they could live in the U.S. and get everything else most of us in the U.S. take for granted as part of the infrastructure.

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Microsoft has twice granted Windows XP a reprieve to allow computer makers to get licences for it for far longer than was originally planned.

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Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.

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