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From: John Larkin on 6 Oct 2006 16:30 On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:51:32 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:43:42 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:33:17 +0100, Eeyore >><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> >The only thing that worries me about the 'state of the world' is what >>>> >idiocy America's up to next. >>>> >>>> You are blaming externals for an internal state, a convenient and >>>> paralyzing cop-out. For anyone reasonably healthy and living in a >>>> free, developed country not to be happy is stunning stupidity. Sad, >>>> too. >>> >>>Our freedoms are under threat as a result of American stupidity. >> >>Since it makes you happy to be unhappy, keep blaming the US for what >>you do to yourself. Enjoy! >> >>I'm full or rasberry cream cheese brioche, vanilla cream puff pastry, >>and Peet's coffee, and have some interesting architectures to >>brainstorm with the boys when I (eventually) get to work, so you can >>see why I'm just brimming with benevolence this morning. >> >>John > >John, Please keep feeding your face, but PLEASE stop feeding the troll >;-) > > ...Jim Thompson Well, they do bring up some subjects that are interesting, and give me opportunities to practice my writing styles. And, actually, conversing with fat, unhappy European neurotics makes me appreciate my life and my country even more! JOhn
From: Eeyore on 6 Oct 2006 16:31 Ken Smith wrote: > In article <kurtullman-0481F2.19314905102006(a)customer-201-125-217-207.uninet.net.mx>, > Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > [...] > > >Managed to put down the > >chimney of the Chinese Embassy during Kosovo, too, Rip roaring accuracy. > > You are assuming it was an error. Consider that it may have been on > purpose and think back. It hit the target it was programmed for, for sure. Graham
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 16:31 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:i3edi2hnkgf3c7jmqv807odjqou4ptar3s(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:23:08 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: >> >>> So, you don't carry anything else?........... >>> .........An insurance card so you don't die while waiting for >>> the hospital to make sure they will be paid for their services? >> >>You really don't know much about the UK do you ? >> >>Medical services are free. > > --- > Such as they are, I've heard. A misconception based on paying too much attention to certain segments of the media.
From: Eeyore on 6 Oct 2006 16:32 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote > > John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:03:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> > >>>Which one would that be, the dangers of driving on the nation's highways? > >>>That's at least 3 orders of magnitude greater of a real threat to every > >>>person in the country than is terrorism. > >> > >>3000 people died at the WTC. Three orders of magnitude from that is 3 > >>million. We kill about 40K people a year in car accidents. > > > > ISTR that Bin Laden's next goal is to kill 3 million people and > > he's not fussy about who they are. > > I'd like to see evidence of a *credible* threat. Basing foreign policy on > what someone *might* do is fear-mongering of the worst variety. This would appear to be current US thinking though. Graham
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 16:33
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:4526B155.1141E524(a)earthlink.net... >T Wake wrote: >> >> I feel like I am stuck in a time warp here. >> >> I went for a jog today and I carried no cashpoint card, no driving >> licence, >> no membership card, no credit card. >> >> Each day (or when I can be bothered), I choose what I will carry with me. >> >> Being _forced_ to carry an ID card is a different matter. Do you see >> this? >> >> If compulsory ID cards were in force and I had been stopped out jogging, >> I >> would have broken the law and been subject to arrest. That is not a >> choice >> in _any_ dictionary I have ever come across. Do you have a different one? >> >> Now, back to the question which you so deftly ignored Can you explain to >> me >> where _I_ have the problem understanding the word [choice] use? > > > So, what happens if you are out jogging and the police have an APB > for a suspect that matches your description? You chose not to carry > some ID, so you are arrested and held because you have no proof you are > not the man they are looking for. Some choice.! > Aha, your idiocy continues. It is still _choice._ That not withstanding, even if I had ID what good would that do, unless the police knew the ID of the suspect? You are also highlighting problem with the guilty until proven innocent state the UK and US seem to head towards. I am innocent of all crimes until the police can prove otherwise. I do not have to prove my innocence. |