From: John Fields on
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:23:12 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:
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>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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>> > These people came from an economic system where the only property
>> > owners (I think) were farms. The only people who knew how to
>> > make things go were property owners. When the above people envisioned
>> > the manufacturing and industrial revolution, did they also anticipate
>> > where people would only own 1/8 acre with a hut on it?
>>
>> You mean like all of the people in Europe who lived in the cities already
>> had?
>
>I'll bet my place here has a lot less than 1/8 of an acre !

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I'll bet it does too.

1/8 acre is 5445 square feet.

So how big is your lot and how big is your hovel?


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JF
From: John Fields on
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:23:47 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:
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>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> In addition, people burn the wood that is laced with arsenic.
>> >>
>> >>What kind of wood is laced with arsenic ?
>> >
>> > Any wood you want to prevent termintes from eating.
>>
>> Not any more, at least not new wood.
>
>What do they use now ?

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http://www.greatsouthernwood.com/


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JF
From: Eeyore on


lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:

> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > T Wake wrote:
> >
> >> The Patriot Act was not a "Good Thing(tm)."
> >
> > It's also a fabulous example of Orwellian style doublespeak.
>
> Something I've always wondered.... Orwell was English, right?

Yes.


> Was "1984" a
> cautionary tale against what he saw happening in England after WWII
> ("Ingsoc")?

I'd have to read up the exact issues again but I knew he had seen 'communism'
after a fashion and fascism at work in Spain during the civil war there and it
seems that 1984 was a kind of amalgam of both of those.


> If so, it's interesting that US society has in some ways come a
> lot closer to Big Brother than I am given to understand UK society has.

More so for sure. Ironic really.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> For credit points: What cease fire violations did Saddam commit?

Didn't they 'lock on' to various flight with their AA radars a few times ?

Graham


From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:455395B2.B98BE126(a)hotmail.com...
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> T Wake wrote:
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>> For credit points: What cease fire violations did Saddam commit?
>
> Didn't they 'lock on' to various flight with their AA radars a few times ?

Yes. Any AD radar activations within the NFZ were followed up by strikes as
were any AD radar which was suspected of painting Coalition aircraft.