From: unsettled on 4 Feb 2007 19:13 MassiveProng wrote: MP leaves 10 dumps in these newsgroups in a row! > On Sun, 04 Feb 07 15:56:58 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > > >>In article <45C34470.DCB07DFF(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>I think you should read up about rationing during WW2. >>>> >>>>I have. It is significant that England couldn't figure out how >>>>to stop war rations until 3 decades after the warring stopped. >>> >>>3 decades ! Where on earth did you get that figure from ? What was being >>>rationed in 1975 ? >> >>I found it. whew! >> >>Reference: _The Downing Street Years_; Margaret Thatcher, Harper-Collins; >>1993; page 44. >> >>"But I took greatest personal pleasure in the removal of exchange >>controls -- that is the abolition of the elaborate statuatory >>restrictions on the amount of foreign exchange British citizens >>could acquire. These had been introduced as an 'emergency measure' >>at the start of the Second World War and maintained by successive >>governments, largely in the hope of increasing industrial >>investment in Britain and of resisting pressure on sterling." >> >>/BAH > > > > That's not "rationing", dingledorf. That's inflation control, and > economic growth initiative.
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:16 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >> So, if it's on its own circuit, how can the stove affect the > >> >> >> wiring of the plug of the radio? > >> >> > > >> >> >You clearly don't understand how RF energy propagates. It doesn't > >> >> > matter which circuit it's on. > >> >> > >> >> Exactly. And it can't be the house wiring. > >> > > >> >Of course it can be. > >> > >> Then explain why I did have the same effects with the stove > >> that was replaced. > > > >Which stove is this now ? Was it the same model ? Did it also have a > >microprocessor in it ? > > Sorry, my fingers did their usual miss-the-most-important-word > error...it should have a 'not' in that sentence. It still proves nothing about the wiring. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:18 T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > > > It would only take one action to cause all of Islam to join > > those extremists. > > This is an interesting line of reasoning to explore. > > What sort of action do you think would be the sufficient trigger for *all* > of Islam (and this, I assume, includes the secular states like Tunisa as > well as the Taleban) to unite and side with the extremists? > > I think it would have to be big. It would have to be able to be spun into > something like a war. Maybe spun into something like a war on a way of life. Invading Iran ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:24 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > >We have previously determined you make up > >your own interpretations of statistics in the past, so I assume you are > >doing the same here. > > Eeyore is laying groundwork for justifying going back to rationing. Uh ??? > He prefers being told what to do and having to be responsible > for any decisions. HILARIOUS ! > This is one of the reasons he cannot see the current world > situtation with Islamic extremists as a threat to his lifestyle. > Eeyore is not the only one. It appears that a large number > of people think in the same manner. I can see it has the potential to be a threat to my lifestyle but not probably in the way you think. Islamic extremism will not bring Sharia law to the UK but it can indeed result in certain unacceptable elements of a 'police state' if the false panic is allowed to progress unchecked. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:25
T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote > >> > >>> I gave you an estimate of the year. Franz and I were trying > >>> to get habshi to test his ideas. That's when habshi told > >>> where he went to school. I can't recall the name of the school-- > >>> Cambridge is what pops up but I can't say if that's the right one. > >> > >>He was lying. > > > > That is possible. Since the guy has no imagination, I figured > > he couldn't make that one up. > > I would suspect that is it more likely he has no education than he went to a > UK university (of pretty much any calibre). But excluding Cambridge I'd hope ! Graham |