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From: Ken Smith on 6 Aug 2006 12:54 In article <692cd2d2kkjj8ker7nqnn8ui027bi4q56m(a)4ax.com>, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:20:02 +0100, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>The money has to come from *somewhere* ! It doesn't grow on trees. > >--- >Of course it does. > >Let's say that I build a house, that it costs me $100,000, and that >I sell it for $200,000. > >Where do you think that $100,000 that I _made_ comes from? It comes from the pocket of the one buying the house. :) You have done something that has created wealth with the $100K it cost you to build the house. The economy has just grown as a result. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Eeyore on 6 Aug 2006 12:50 "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > > > John Fields wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:03:25 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" > > > <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: > > > > > > >"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht > > > > > > >> --- > > > >> Do you want us to lose? > > > > > > > >No, just want the US to realize what they have caused by going in > > > >on their own, neglecting the UN's advice to wait a tiny bit longer. > > > > > > --- > > > I we'd taken the UN's advice we'd _still_ be playing their waiting > > > game. > > > > Would there be anything wrong with that ? > > > > Graham > > Would there be anything RIGHT with that? Plenty. Before the recent war there was far wider employment and less crime. The water, electricity, phones and other infrastructure worked and hadn't been blown up. People weren't suffering mental illness caused by the insurrection. The country hadn't divided on religious lines. Etc. Graham
From: Ken Smith on 6 Aug 2006 13:03 In article <8p5bd2hu57g01kfv5q619vs6l4sk5u1h9g(a)4ax.com>, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: [...] >You obviously do not know much about aircraft design routines. > > The X-36 is a prime example of just how wrong you are. Not a chance my friend. The X-36 involved nominally NASA money but there is no question that it is a miltitary development project. Tax payer dollars were still used for something of no use to the public and the result is still a poorer public. The reason for the funny shape is to avoid reflecting radar. This is not something a commercial aircraft would require. If a commercial aircraft was being designed, there would be a tail and a completely different set of design goals. (except perhaps that it can remain in the air) -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Frank Bemelman on 6 Aug 2006 13:21 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht news:at2cd2le18m3i1d0oarbf6rmdjr0pevf0r(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 11:03:25 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" > <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: > >>"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht > >>> --- >>> Do you want us to lose? >> >>No, just want the US to realize what they have caused by going in >>on their own, neglecting the UN's advice to wait a tiny bit longer. > > --- > I we'd taken the UN's advice we'd _still_ be playing their waiting > game. Possibly. WMD don't pop up just like mushrooms in your garden, after three days of heavy rain. But the USA has shown great disrespect for these democraticially made decisions, and that is a bloody shame. Even more so because of the results. There is a enourmous amount of blood on the hands of the USA. Something *you* have to live with, asking yourself if it was worth spending those montly $10 or whatever it is. You should be bloody ashamed of yourself, giving your continious support to your terrorist government. -- Thanks, Frank. (remove 'q' and '.invalid' when replying by email)
From: Phat Bytestard on 6 Aug 2006 13:22
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:38:00 -0300, YD <ydtechHAT(a)techie.com> Gave us: >On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:59:03 -0500, John Fields ><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > >>On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:59:18 +0100, Eeyore >><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>John Fields wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:58:14 +0100, Eeyore >>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >John Fields wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:07:18 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax >>>> >> <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> >Interesting how hating Saddam made one a weak wimpy leftist back then, >>>> >> >and hating him now makes one a strong rightwing patriot. >>>> >> >>>> >> --- >>>> >> And what did hating the US make you back then, >>>> > >>>> >Probably considered vaguely irrational. >>>> > >>>> >> and what does it make you now? >>>> > >>>> >An increasingly popular opinion reflecting concern over the USA's inability to >>>> >get the picture. >>>> >>>> --- >>>> I asked what it makes _you_, not what popular opinion was, but no >>>> matter. Since you seem to identify with popular opinion, I suggest >>>> you're merely one of the sheep who is blindly caught up in a sheep >>>> stampede, LOL ;) >>> >>>I was hard pressed to find a good description. You see I don't *hate* the US nor >>>does anyone else I know. >>> >>>Exasperated about the USA would be more accurate. >> >>--- >>Because we're conducting our affairs in ways of which you >>disapprove, and while we're happy to take that into consideration, >>in the long run we'll do what we want to. >> >>What I find incongruous is that so many of you all (Europeans, I >>guess.) would rather turn a blind eye toward the middle east and let >>Israel die than to help her. Why is that? >> > >Possibly because in the long view Israel is rather insignificant, >except as a regional US puppy. What have they contributed to world >wealth and wisdom? You're an idiot. I suggest you look back over the last thirty years worth of Scientific American magazine issues. Israel is way up on the list of high technology providers in medicine, and space, as well as military defense technologies. |