From: jmfbahciv on
Rod Speed wrote:
> John Larkin wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:34:12 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:
>>
>>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:34:16 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:46:43 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John Fields wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:29:39 -0800, John Larkin
>>>>>>>> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:25:12 -0500, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv(a)aol>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> John Fields wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:11:55 -0800, John Larkin
>>>>>>>>>>> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> But unlike lawyers and futures traders, farmers actually
>>>>>>>>>>>> make useful stuff.
>>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>> Not only that,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> "The American farmer is the only man in our economy
>>>>>>>>>>> who buys everything he buys at retail, sells everything
>>>>>>>>>>> he sells at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> John F. Kennedy, 9-22-1960
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> JF
>>>>>>>>>> Shows how stupid he was.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> /BAH
>>>>>>>>> Never vote for anyone with charisma.
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> /BAH for president!!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can't, I'm allergic to politics.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /BAH
>>>>>> Imagine what sort of twisted personality actually *wants* to be a
>>>>>> congressman. Prison would be less tedious.
>>>>>>
>>>>> In aulden days, that work used to be considered an obligation,
>>>>> not a career path.
>>>>>
>>>>> /BAH
>>>> It was also a part-time job, performed by real people who lived and
>>>> worked among the people they represented. A simpler time fer sure.
>>>>
>>> I don't think it was simpler.
>
>> I think it was.
>
> In some respects it was, in some it wasnt.
>
> There were lots of full depressions in the century before 1929 for example and none since then.
>
>> The world had far fewer stimuli,
>
> Even that is arguable with the immigrants for example.
>
>> far slower pace of life,
>
> Even that is arguable with the immigrants for example.

Sigh! Non-immigrants had farms. You really should learn about
work.

<snip>

>
> Easy enough to unload samsung's battery manager.

I'd trust Samsung to know how their gear worked over
any other software company's.

Are you ever going to answer my question about how IP
was defined?


/BAH
From: Bret Cahill on
> I think it was.

And a lot of rightards thought the Federalist #10 was written by Karl
Marx.

Google _Das KapitalOne_ on alt.philosophy for a good laugh.

They continued to believe that nonsense even though several liberals
were busy trying to expose my prank.

Too stupid to google the text from one of the most important works in
political science.

> The world had far fewer stimuli, far slower pace of
> life,

They certainly devoted much more time to politics and good
government.
Tocqueville wrote in 1833 that politics was one half of an American's
life.

Democratic government will always be more sophisticated than despotic
societies where executing the opposition as in Iran is the only thing
that ever happens.

As Tocqueville pointed out in 1833 the number of newspapers in the U.
S. "surpassed belief." It sounded like they already had the
internet.

Instead of reading the political classics most Americans have been
watching excitin' Hollywood action movies, Madison Avenue ads and the
corp. media's 24/7 propaganda campaign to keep Americans ignorant of
Jeffersonian democracy.


Bret Cahill


"The right to tax . . . embodies all other rights."

-- Mao