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From: Eeyore on 4 Nov 2006 11:49 Jamie wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > Spehro Pefhany wrote: > > > >> if you're in the market for a $5K+ > >>watch, there are only a few places worldwide that are comparable > > > > Why would anyone spend that much on a watch ? I can't figure it. Aside from > > bragging rights of course ! > > > > Graham > > > you can't figure it out? why does that > not surprise me? It's certainly nothing to do with timekeeping. Graham
From: joseph2k on 4 Nov 2006 11:48 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <t9lmk29qp6402rq9vdiuh88so14e4kt4uo(a)4ax.com>, > Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP(a)interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote: >>On Fri, 03 Nov 06 14:00:54 GMT, the renowned jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>In article <454B3D79.250DEEA6(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: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >The last thing I'd fancy after a long flight is shopping ! >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I observed this behaviour when we went to China. Our tour >>>>> >> groups were upper middle class people. We arrived at the >>>>> >> Great Wall and the shopaholics turned left to go into the >>>>> >> store while we turned right to go on the Great Wall and walk >>>>> >> a little bit of it. These people never saw the Great Wall. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> They went half-way around the world and didn't even bother to >>>>> >> look at a remarkable feat of the human species. >>>>> > >>>>> >Americans ??? >>>>> >>>>> Not all were. I think this had more to do with people who had >>>>> new money. It was certainly a lesson to me about people who >>>>> don't know how work gets done. >>>> >>>>I can't imagine what goes through their minds. >>> >>>Oh, I can imagine. A good example is this thread. >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> That part of the Wall was amazing. We climbed it and walked it. >>>>> JMF has fear of heights. He wanted to go on (est. angle of >>>>> some of walk was >45 degrees). I looked back and then had to >>>>> look _down_. I figured I'd have to carry him back if we went any >>>>> further. >>>> >>>>I'm glad you enjoyed it. >>>> >>>>My time on mainland China was really just involved with business in the >>>Shenzhen >>>>area. I'd like to see more though. >>> >>>I'm going to get up and look it up. I don't know where that >>>area is. >> >>It's a commuter train (subway-style) ride from Hong Kong. > > Thank you. No wonder I didn't know the name and couldn't > find it in my maps. > >>A SEZ just >>on the other side of the boundary, but it's bigger than HK now (in >>size and population). > > The city that was real interesting when we went in the 80s was > Shanghai. I think they were the field test for China's flavor > of capitalism. >> >>>>I do like Hong Kong big time though ! >>> >>>Hong Kong was a amazing when were there. I don't know how >>>it has changed since China took it over, though. >>> >>>/BAH >> >>It's just about ten years now! As more companies go in directly, >>they're losing a bit of the middleman and financial center/re status >>to other Chinese cities, so their growth is nowwhere near as rapid as >>the rest of China, but they are holding their own. > > Good. There was a potential for a huge mess there. > >> The shopping there >>is nothing special, cheaper prices can be found in the US. > > REally? How about labor? Can you still buy stuff cheaper > if the thingie involves labor? I'm thinking of custom-made > suits and shoes. > >> Compared to >>more socialist places such as the US and Europe and China their >>taxation regime is remarkably favorable, particularly to the well-off. > > If you want your country to be successful and thrive, you have > to be kind to your wealthy. > > /BAH Only those that are creating new wealth. No nation thrives long (many generations) by letting anyone rest on the laurels of their predecessors, especially from family. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: T Wake on 4 Nov 2006 11:49 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eii162$8ps_009(a)s792.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <ZN2dnbrj16oQotbYRVnyhw(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>news:ei22el$8ss_006(a)s765.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>> In article <VjT0h.22840$e66.20121(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>news:45436FD6.3B0A4C75(a)hotmail.com... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Wow. You should market your filter. I know a few politicians >>>>>> that would love to hand them out before every speech. >>>>> >>>>> Do you have anything useful to contribute ? >>>> >>>>Apparently she doesn't. Logic has failed her, so she just goes around >>>>spouting Republican soundbites and acting holier-than-thou when people >>>>dare >>>>to question them. >>> >>> I seem to be making my points; I can tell when you start using >>> circular logic to refute them. >> >>Was that circular logic? > > Nope. Merely a comment on a very odd behaviour I've been > observing. I meant the point you dismissed by calling it circular logic. Not your own, personal, brand of logic. Which is, I may add, very circular indeed.
From: Eeyore on 4 Nov 2006 11:53 unsettled wrote: > Jamie wrote: > > Eeyore wrote: > >> Spehro Pefhany wrote: > >> > >>> if you're in the market for a $5K+ > >>> watch, there are only a few places worldwide that are comparable > >> > >> > >> Why would anyone spend that much on a watch ? I can't figure it. Aside > >> from > >> bragging rights of course ! > >> > >> Graham > >> > > you can't figure it out? why does that > > not surprise me? > > Easy things are difficult for our camel jockey. So do tell why a $5k watch makes sense. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Nov 2006 11:55
T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > >>> These restrictions may have to be dropped now that there is > >>> online shopping available. > >> > >>There never have been any restrictions on what you can buy since rationing > >> from WW2 ended in the 50s. > > > > It didn't end in the UK. Thatcher was still removing vestiges of > > WWII price and labor controls when she was PM. > > Nonsense. Not to mention its been more than 15 years since she was PM. > > Seriously, do you exist in some Bizzaro world of 50 years ago? It would > explain your reluctance to use a web browser on your otherwise capable PC. Is there a DOS browser ? Graham |