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From: jmfbahciv on 11 Oct 2006 06:21 In article <452BA7C7.4751B694(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> >On Mon, 09 Oct 06 10:36:40 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > >> >>If your grocery store carries only one kind of apple, it >> >>doesn't matter how many other vareities you want if it >> >>is the only store carrying apples. The only way you can >> >>get him to carry the variety you want is to convince him. >> >>This is called changing his mindset. Until you do that, >> >>there is no other option available to you for getting >> >>the apple you want. >> > >> >Just go to another store! That's what I do. >> >> There aren't any other stores. There won't be any other >> stores. You are assuming that capitalism, a.k.a. >> competition, is allowed. > >Are you really this stupid ? Based on your definition of stupid: Fortunately, yes. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 11 Oct 2006 06:24 In article <1qeni29rcg3tjnech3i3plskg81st638nf(a)4ax.com>, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Tue, 10 Oct 06 10:03:13 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>In article <kmnki2t5q21v3q4unpq99qqsner3pu6mhr(a)4ax.com>, >> John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>>On Mon, 09 Oct 06 10:36:40 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>>>If your grocery store carries only one kind of apple, it >>>>doesn't matter how many other vareities you want if it >>>>is the only store carrying apples. The only way you can >>>>get him to carry the variety you want is to convince him. >>>>This is called changing his mindset. Until you do that, >>>>there is no other option available to you for getting >>>>the apple you want. >>> >>>Just go to another store! That's what I do. >> >>There aren't any other stores. There won't be any other >>stores. You are assuming that capitalism, a.k.a. >>competition, is allowed. >> >>/BAH > >There's always competition. In a free-market economy, we call it >competition; in a communist economy, they call it corruption. Cuba, >for instance, has a mostly corruption-driven economy, much as the USSR >had. People are pretty much people. Think about it. The fact that the payoffs have to occur diminishes the efficiency of getting anything done. If a micron of dirt is thown into a gear every minute without stopping, eventually the teensy bits of dirt accumulate to the point where the axle can no longer do work. Economies and societies seem to behave in a similar manner. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 11 Oct 2006 06:37 In article <d6oni25av3uda9f0udpkq0vfefsk5bdtmj(a)4ax.com>, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:10:21 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:05:26 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan >><jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >> >>>The Hamilton Amendment is Amendment 9, not 4. Read it. >> >>Of course I've read it. What's your intrepretation as regards privacy >>in, say, international communications? > >I wasn't addressing that part of the discussion, but your quite >specific comment that was, "The current concept of privacy as a >Constitutional right was cobbled up by the Supremes to justify the >Roe-v-Wade thing." > >This is not at all true. Not even close. > >By the way, have you bothered to read that decision? > >Jon > >P.S. I'm particularly interested in the period shortly before the >formation of the US. I have one set of only 7000 volume sets printed >by the US on the subject (3 volumes initially, two more shortly >afterwards.) It was produced by order of a Senate resolution on >January 24th, 1901, with the House concurring on February 9th, 1901. >The volumes are titled, "Documentary History of the Constitution of >the United States of America." > >In the first volume alone, it provides the proceedings of the >Annapolis Convention; the proceedings of the Continental Congress; the >credentials of the delegates to the Federal Convention; the >proceedings of the Federal Convention (including detailed, daily >records of the voting history for each colony/state) and much more. > >I read these, page by page, when I have the time. > >I am also personally reproducing a two-volume, five-book set by George >Bancroft on the web. It is copyrighted in 1882 and called "History of >the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America." >It's referenced in some US Supreme Court decisions. The author >personally visited and thoroughly read through many of the letters >exchanged by the principles at the time and it's an excellent >reference. I've learned a few things that go against some of the >presumptions taught in typical history classes, reading through it. Kewl. I have Volume 5 of a set called _The American Nation: A History_, _Colonial Self-Government 1652-1689_, 1904. I want to find the volume that covers between Revolutionary War and the convening of the Constitutional Convention. /BAH
From: John Fields on 11 Oct 2006 08:56 On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:41:46 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >mmeron(a)cars3.uchicago.edu wrote: > >> In article <eggdcq$1bi$1(a)blue.rahul.net>, kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) writes: >> >> >Musharraf and his buddies are "secular thugs". OBL is a religious nut >> >case and an enemy of Musharraf. There is no reason to believe that >> >Musharraf would help OBL unless he felt he had something to gain and every >> >reason to think he would be happy at his misfortune. >> >> You need to learn way more about how things work in these parts of the >> world (in most of the world, for that matter). Your thinking above is >> along the same lines which made the British intelligence and foreign >> service, in the late 30s, to rest assured that there is no possibility >> of an aliance between Hitler and Stalin, and we know how that turned >> out. > >Oh for heavens sake stop making idiotic comparisons with WW2 ! --- Here's a little more rope: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana. --- >That 'alliance' - it wasn't an alliance in fact - didn't last long anyway. --- Trying to split hairs again? It most certainly was an alliance, since they signed a trade agree ment and a non-aggression pact: 19/08/1939 Germany and USSR sign a trade treaty. 23/08/1939 Germany and the USSR sign a non-aggression pact in Moscow. Had Hitler kept up his end of the bargain and not double-crossed Russia there's no telling how the rest of the war would have gone. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Spehro Pefhany on 11 Oct 2006 10:15
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:08:09 -0700, the renowned John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:08:56 +0100, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>John Larkin wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:09:14 +0100, Eeyore wrote: >>> >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: >>> >> Jim Thompson wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> > That's where we pretend we like the French ;-) >>> >> >>> >> Sorry, Jim, but I'm not THAT good at playing pretend. >>> > >>> >Don't worry. The French don't much like your kind of Americans either. >>> > >>> >Graham >>> >>> Heck, you can hardly get into a roadside rest area bathroom for the >>> crowds from the French tour busses. On our way back from Monterey, my >>> wife had to sit shivering at the Junipera Serra rest stop for that >>> very reason, waiting out a bus full of female French tourists. If you >>> go to the top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco, the language you're most >>> likely to overhear is German. >>> >>> Stay home! The lines at Peet's Coffee and Joseph Schmidt Chocolate are >>> long enough already. >> >>The attraction of the falling dollar and rising Euro of course. >> >>Graham > >The rooms at the Inn at Spanish Bay start at about $550, and europeans >are a glut there, too. But you can sit on the deck, overlooking the >ocean, next to a cozy open-air firepit, sipping a Guinness, and the >burger and fries are excellent. If you get chilly, they'll bring you >blankets. Golf is an insane activity, but golf resorts are almost >always a great place to stay. > >John Last survey I saw showed US tourism down a modest 7% since 2000, but globally it was up 25% over the same period. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff(a)interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |