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From: jmfbahciv on 5 Feb 2007 08:40 In article <45C67CD5.290F173E(a)hotmail.com>, 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: >> >> > >> >> >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." > >That's not rationing sweetie ! You don't think that was rationing money, especially investment monies? > >Many countries still have such controls to this day even without wars being >involved. I didn't say there weren't. I said it took decades for England to stop doing their emergency measures that were instituted to fight WWII. Control, especially the restriction, of people buying and selling stuff is called rationing. /BAH
From: unsettled on 5 Feb 2007 08:49 MassiveProng wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:39:52 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> > Gave us: > > >>Ken Smith wrote: >> >>>In article <45C6845D.3A46D52E(a)hotmail.com>, >>>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>MassiveProng wrote: >>> >>>[....] >>> >>> >>>>>qualified installer situation only, and if he can shove it into the >>>>>location and plug it in, he can diagnose any problems it causes after >>>>>being plugged in. Otherwise, he ain't all that to begin with. >>>> >>>>I don't know how you handle these things in the USA but in the UK a full-size >>>>electric stove is a permanently installed device that an electrician fits to a >>>>specific power point that includes ( as it happens ) an isolating switch. >>> >>> >>>When new stuff gets put in, these days, it gets plugged in. Even stuff >>>that you normally think of as permanent will have a way to plug and unplug >>>it. This reduces the skill level needed to do a safe installation. >>> >>>BTW: In California, nothing is permanently installed. It may tumble out >>>the door any minute. >> >>We're consumer oriented here in the US rather than union >>oriented, for the most part. > > > Well, THAT was a one hundred percent meaningless remark. I didn't expect you to understand it. Join Eeyore over in the oblivious group.
From: Eeyore on 5 Feb 2007 08:50 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >What is clear is that any improvised device showing > >> >batteries and wires is presently suspicious to the > >> >police. That's got the potential to shut down cities > >> >and airports. Leaving a large ghetto blaster at Logan > >> >Airport would probably shut down the building it was > >> >found in. > >> > >> Did the plane that fell on Scotland have a radio filled > >> with explosive? > > > >In baggage in the hold IIRC. > > > >What's your point ? > > Unbelievable. Since you didn't state what point you were trying to make I asked. Hold baggage is more carefully screened these days. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Feb 2007 08:53 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > I just know how people work. You mean you think you do. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Feb 2007 08:55
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >I expect a computer to have some decent input and output devices / ports. > >> >A few buttons and a 4 character display don't cut it for example. > >> > >> Son, that's a computer system. > > > >No, that's a micro something. > > IOW, a small computer system. Nope. > Aka boy toy. I know girls who like them as toys too. Graham |