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From: John Fields on 10 Nov 2006 08:29 On Fri, 10 Nov 06 12:10:44 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >In article <0j17l2dnu2acrl45la9t243up4ctu00ebp(a)4ax.com>, > John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >>On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:01:39 +0000, Eeyore >><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>>I see. >>> >>>Luckily we don't have that problem here. We do get wood rot though. ! >> >>--- >>Yes, I've noticed that from your posts. > >Oh, stuff it. He's talking nice and you still have to slam him. --- I see. Now it's _you_ who's making the rules? Stuff it yourself. -- JF
From: jmfbahciv on 10 Nov 2006 08:31 In article <uce7l2p5u9u18c3bu4q25h9ghj6i6m8qcs(a)4ax.com>, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:45:08 +0000, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>John Fields wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >>I'll have to estimate that one. About 18' wide by 90 so 1620 sq ft. > >I'm scared to tell you how much land I currently own or expect to add >to it in the next year, then. But its in the five to six figures in >sq ft terms. > >>> and how big is your hovel? >> >>About 1000 sq ft. A slightly larger than average Victorian end terrace house. > >Well, out in the western part of the US, we don't have good options >for transportation, so we tend to accumulate the tools of living >isolated. I have a JD 4320 tractor with self-leveling front loader, >backhoe and 6' wide tiller. We grow much of our own food, and I need >room for an office, a library, a sewing room, a museum room, two >kitchens, 5 baths, a 220 sq ft 'bird room' where I keep finches, >chipmunks, squirrels, and the like, a pantry, cold storage room, >furnace room, ... well, it takes some space. We have a 300' well >that provides water, too, so filters and storage tanks for that as >well as a pump house. Currently, 5000 sq ft with another 1200 sq ft >of 35' ceiling, slab cement floor shed. I'll be adding a 2400 sq ft >barn and perhaps another 4000 sq ft home, in this next year. > >The downside of this is that it is a lot to maintain. I have to dig >up my own property to fix/repair breaks in the water lines (over 1000' >runs about 3-4 feet underground), do my own watershed management, put >down structural walls for terracing, repair a quarter mile asphalt >driveway myself, etc. So one learns how to build a home or a barn by >themselves, repair or replace a roof, cut down trees and use a >portable saw mill, etc. > >My livingroom is bigger than your house and has 14 foot ceilings and I >could put your home in my shed, too. <grin> I think the diverse attitudes shown in this thread is due to people not knowing how stuff gets done. :-) My folks, who will not see 80 again, dug a dry well by hand in the summer of 2005. /BAH
From: joseph2k on 10 Nov 2006 08:38 T Wake wrote: > > "Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message > news:pr54l2tqjbdp69t1hlc6pbg6p74dluomcf(a)4ax.com... >> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:02:29 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> >> wrote: >> >>>Ben Newsam wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:25:39 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>I consider anyone anti-American who places the wants and >>>>>needs of others, including not only foreigners in their >>>>>own setting but also foreigners illegally in this country >>>>>ahead of the needs of the United States and US citizens >>>>>as a set. >>>> >>>> >>>> Wow. Your attitudes sound dangerous to me. Let's hope there aren't too >>>> many of you. Ummmm.... let me see... what's the population of the USA? >>>> And what proportion have your views? And now what's the population of >>>> the rest of the world? Sorry mate, you're outvoted. That's democracy >>>> for you. >>> >>>Classic Brit stupidity. >> >> Yes. Silly of me. I should have realised that you have no real >> interest in democracy at all, you merely wish to impose your views on >> the rest of us. Actually, I knew that already, and so, it seems do >> many of the other posters to this thread. > > Yep. Even the Americans think that. (And most of the Americans seem to > think Unsettled is un-American.....) Exaggeration unjustified, and i find you to be as belligerent as unsettled. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: Eeyore on 10 Nov 2006 08:58 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > >> What *is* the interest payment on the $30,000 owed by every single > >> American ? > > > >At going rates, the debt service is about $1800/yr/person. That's about > >1/8th of the total Federal taxes I pay. I really resent my hard-earned > >money being wasted in such a cavalier manner. > > You think oddly. And yet, you have no problems with them > spending most of your tax dollars on medical insurance. *They* aren't spending anything on medical insurance. Interest on the national debt is money wated. Money spent on health care is money spent purposefully. Graham
From: Eeyore on 10 Nov 2006 09:00
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Raising the minimum wage is stupid and insane. Why ? I saw it can be a slow as $5 an hour. Can anyone actually live on that ? Graham |