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From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 19:41 "Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote in message news:6qcnk2h9rl7p2vcnh97pr7i0ihpa9idseg(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:23:29 -0000, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >>Maybe they don't sell books in America........ > > :) > > They do. But in many American homes you won't see that many. Like 5. > (And one is a bible they don't read that much -- and never the Sermon > on the Mount, because they might actually have to consider the painful > idea of not actually being a darned hypocrite.) > > In my home, I've a technical library numbering currently some 2,000 > books spanning across all the walls of my 'office' room, which are a > minimum of 10' high (to over 12'.) About 200 cu ft of shelf space in > my office alone. More books, of course, elsewhere. My collection's not quite as big, but more eclectic. Some technical, some fiction, some philosophy, history, some soft-core science, travel, a variety of beer- and wine-making books...and a full collection of Dilbert, Bloom County, and Life In Hell. > Some of us do buy (and > read) a lot of books to keep the bookstores happy. Yeah, Mary won't even let me go into a bookstore these days. :^) Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 19:47 "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message news:U4qdnc8hdcI8VtbYnZ2dnUVZ8sqdnZ2d(a)pipex.net... > > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:454BB005.F2D563FC(a)hotmail.com... >> >> >> T Wake wrote: >> >>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >>> >>> Still, the best has to be Kroneburg or Stella Artois :-) >> >> I'll be drinking some Stella later this evening. It's quite pleasant but >> not my >> fave, however the pub doesn't have my favourite, in fact draught Holsten >> is very >> rare indeed. >> >> >>> Hoegarden is pretty good as well. >> >> I've never really got on with that. White beers are an acquired taste I >> reckon. > > I find they make you too drunk, too fast. But that isn't always a bad > thing. And don't even think about drinking a hefeweis with pizza, pretzels, potato chips, or anything else starchy. You'll wake up the yeasties again, and your SO won't get a single wink of sleep that night. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 19:50 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:61229$454bd1e4$49ecfa4$3546(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: >> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message >> news:5d1d4$454b8938$4fe77ae$1746(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > >>>I use a petroleum product to heat my home, my hot water >>>and cooking. It is called LPG. Most people in my region >>>are using propane. My closest neighbor uses propane as >>>backup heat source, relying primarily on wood for space >>>heating (cut and split their own) but cooking and domestic >>>hot water are electric. > >> And all sources in that paragraph are domestically supplied, so are a >> non-issue as regards dependence on the Middle East. > > I'll repeat, LPG comes from petroleum. Some does. Much doesn't. It's also a byproduct of NG production. > Propane is LPG. Well, one for two isn't bad. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 19:54 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:269e9$454bd31d$49ecfa4$3573(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message >> news:a57c8$454b902a$4fe77ae$1746(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... >> >>>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: >>> >>> >>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>>news:eifeh1$8qk_004(a)s820.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>> >>>> >>>>>What counts with measuring the effectiveness of any social program >>>>>is the individual stories, not the cut and dried percentages >>>>>of service delivery counts. >>>> >>>> >>>>And yet you prefer to believe impersonal books when learning about what >>>>Islam is all about, instead of talking to actual Muslims. Your >>>>hypocrisy on this issue suggests that you don't intrinsically prefer one >>>>or the other (anecdotes or data), but rather in any given situation, you >>>>just pick and choose what you believe by how well it supports your >>>>assumptions and preconceived notions. Nice. >>> >>>How many Muslims have you spoken with? >> >> >> Something on the order of a couple hundred, throughout my adult life. >> >> >> >>>How many of them were >>>militants? >> >> >> Irrelevant. We were talking about the Muslim culture, not extremist >> culture. > > And you still don't get it. Well, you certainly haven't explained it in a consistent, logical way that avoids name-calling and insults. >>> If you don't believe people of your own culture, >>>why would you believe people who belong to a culture so >>>alien that you can never hope to understand it? > >> Several reasons. > > Nothing of the following answers the question asked. Sure it does. > But thanks for playing. I'm happy that you're so impressed with yourself. > It was supposed to be a wake up call, but it seems > a simple question went right over your head. (Dare I say, again?) No, my answer was meant to try to wake *you* up to the idiocies of your misanthropic, jingoistic position. I don't really care if you get it or not. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 19:57
"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:5da97$454bd641$49ecfa4$3640(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > > What's wrong with you? USA folks pay top dollar for the > same medicines other people get for less. We've been > discussing that to death in this thread. Our dollars > pay for the research. That's a part of the IP that is > exported without appropriate compensation. Places like > Canada and UK are getting a free ride on our backs and > complaining all the way. You think Canada and the UK don't pay for pharmaceutical research? You really do need to learn whereof you speak, on about 5 different levels. > But then you're just a camel jockey, what would you know. Nice attempt to insult him, to justify continuing to ignore the valid points he makes and cover your own ignorance. Eric Lucas |