From: John Fields on 9 Nov 2006 15:08 On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:23:12 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> >> > 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 ! --- 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? -- JF
From: John Fields on 9 Nov 2006 15:15 On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:23:47 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> <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 ? --- http://www.greatsouthernwood.com/ -- JF
From: Eeyore on 9 Nov 2006 15:53 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 9 Nov 2006 15:55 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 9 Nov 2006 15:58
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455395B2.B98BE126(a)hotmail.com... > > > 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 ? 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. |