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From: Eeyore on 26 Jan 2007 08:55 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>> > > >>> >> And what about judges who have a political agenda and are > >>> >> very willing to set bail so they can go about their mess-making > >>> >> plans? > >>> > > >>> >Excessively 'political' judges seem to be a uniquely US phenomenon. > >>> > >>> A lot of them are elected. > >> > >>Judges here aren't elected. We would shudder at the very idea. > >> > >>Graham > >> > > > >You should. We elect judges here in Georgia, and it's a real mess. > > We don't in Massachusetts and it, also, is a mess because of one > political party being dominant for too long. Our judges keep out of politics. Graham
From: Eeyore on 26 Jan 2007 08:57 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > The only thing I've been discussing in this thread is about very > speicfic mess preventions. The US is trying to deal with preventing > these messes. But it's the USA that's responsible for the underlying scenarios that causes these 'messes' in the first place. Graham
From: Eeyore on 26 Jan 2007 08:59 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > You forget Europe failure in dealing with the Balkans. Are you going to suggest that the USA fixed the Balkans too ? Good Lord. Graham
From: Ken Smith on 26 Jan 2007 09:34 In article <45B8C3D7.2DC6C497(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: [....] >I've heard that US food prices are very competitive compared to the UK. I'm >curious how 'the free market' has produced a situation where prices vary by 2:1 >from one state to another. If food is one penny a ton in one store and two pennies a ton in another, there is a 2:1 ratio but the food prices won't be much of a motivator. In California: A can of good quality green beans is about $1.30. For the same quantity, fresh ones in a chain store are about twice that and at the farmers market in season, they are about half that. Shipping fresh food costs more than shipping cans. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 26 Jan 2007 09:52
In article <871wli801b.fsf(a)nonospaz.fatphil.org>, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> writes: >> It has come to my attention that a good (top of the line) >> computer case matches or exceeds the price of a reasonable >> motherboard these days. >> >> A cheap case is ~1/3 the cost of that same motherboard. >> >> Can you show me where I'm mistaken? Are they simply marking >> up the excellent cases more then the cheap ones? Is there >> a conspiracy among manufacturers that they're all setting >> their pricing the same way? > >You're right. The cheaper ones have much cheaper PSUs. >Power ratings on PSUs are notoriously exagerated, particularly >amongst cheap ones. The mechanical design and construction accuracy on the cheap cases is also not as good. For example, the drive bays on the cheap one flexed quite easily. The better quality one has a rolled edge on the back of the metal and thus is quite stiff. Cheaply designed power supplies also may have start up problems. Where I work, we bought a batch of 4 "industrial PC" cases. They eat the mother boards because the power supplies would sometimes overshoot at power on. They all failed in environmental testing. It also appears that nobody tests FCC or CE compliance at the instant of power on. Some of the PC power supplies output quite a burst as they start up. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |