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From: Eeyore on 3 Dec 2006 08:34 unsettled wrote: > Ken Smith wrote: > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>Ken Smith wrote: > >>>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> Someone else wrote > >>>>>More properly, you live in a representative democracy which is a > >>>>>Constitutional Monarchy with a hereditary Monarch who is the Head of > >>>>>State. > >>>> > >>>>Titular Head of State. > >>> > >>>Only because she's female? > >> > >>Nope. > > > > > > Try reading to your self out loud. > > It might be helpful if he did that with all his postings > *before* he hit send. Pppffttttt ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 3 Dec 2006 08:36 unsettled wrote: > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > It is the private property ownership that is key to capitalism. If > > you take that opportunity away, everybody will simply be punching > > the clock. They will not care if they produce quality products > > nor will they do anything about improving those products. One > > of the reason Russia failed is because people didn't own their > > patch nor did they own what their work produced. So they had > > absolutely no incentive to make a lot or do it well. > > There's an entire mindset that goes along with the pride of > ownership. People carry that mindset around with them all > day every day. I've kept pictures of my hotel room in > Belgrade as a reminder of this. > > There was a sink on one wall, with the faucets mounted on > the wall above it, and a mirror and a light. > > Nothing lined up. It wasn't off by just a little, but by inches. > You didn't need a level to notice the poor workmanship, it > really jumped out at you. This was a large hotel, the Hotel > Belgrade. I can only guess that all the rooms were much alike. > > Yes, it was Yugoslavia and the state still owned everything > when I was last there. It's all changed now and if you think Europe's like that generally, you're wwaaayyyyy off the mark. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 3 Dec 2006 08:46 In article <gtk1n2lnpgh9bk0o6sn4r1v9n2pofis8bt(a)4ax.com>, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:13:24 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> >wrote: > >><snip> >>Opportunity is discovered by the individual, not handed to them. >><snip> > >Nope. That only tells me you've never been there. Spoken like a >person born with a silver spoon in their mouth. > >I hadn't said that being poor means there are no opportunities. A >smart person will recognize more of them. So being smart helps. A >hard working person will be better able to make more of them. So >being hard working helps. But wealth is a far bigger advantage for >success than is being poor. > >Control over capital and people creates opportunities and defends >against feeling the fuller brunt of mistakes made in learning from >them. > >It would seem that you'd argue being poor is an advantage, too. If it >weren't so patently laughable, I'd even imagine you actually believed >it. Being poor is an advantage only if you use what you have learned to make stuff. Being rich is an advantage only if you use what you have learned to make stuff. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 3 Dec 2006 08:54 In article <MPG.1fdb7d77da6d8f5d989d8f(a)news.individual.net>, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >In article <b41d0$45719ca8$49ecf15$14377(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >unsettled(a)nonsense.com says... <snip> >I used Ted to tweak BAH. ;-) It worked. :-) <snip> /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 3 Dec 2006 08:58
In article <a8s2n2pkv9vre4p7mbgbop7ii534k1fm8v(a)4ax.com>, YD <ydtechHAT(a)techie.com> wrote: >Late at night, by candle light, hill(a)rowland.org penned this immortal >opus: <snip> >> Still going strong, over 11,300 posts, no sign of slowing. > >And covering just about anything between heaven and earth except jihad >and tronics. One has to do the background learning before working on the peskiest problems. If you've been reading the posts, you should be able to figure out why the extremists are winning. The statement in the subject line is true but an extremists will not acknowledge it. However, this is something that people have to learn about the culture. /BAH |