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From: Phat Bytestard on 6 Aug 2006 13:46 On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:29:14 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us: > > Yes, it does. If you're in the paper products or produce business. >It would be damn hard to make money selling apples and other fruit >without growing them on trees. It would also be very hard to build >decent homes without lumber, which grows on trees, as well. Yep... even the media that the "money" got printed on came from trees.
From: Phat Bytestard on 6 Aug 2006 13:47 On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:29:20 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: >That's easy. Of course I don't want them to be defeated. I'd like to see them >live in peace with their neighbours and I fear that their current actions are >more likely to adversely affect that possibility. "Their current action" was 100% defensive, dumbass.
From: John Larkin on 6 Aug 2006 13:48 On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:43:39 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Woodgate wrote: > >> In message <gg3cd21bs2725tmd1lfr9p38t2t2932jm6(a)4ax.com>, dated Sun, 6 >> Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> >> writes >> >And that consists of deciding things and doing things, not just sitting >> >on the sidelines and bitching. >> >> Unfortunately, the EU is an institution dedicated to not deciding and >> not acting, and entirely devoted to sitting on the sidelines and >> bitching. > >It seems to able to decide and act on some daft things though. > >You've missed much of the past fun we've had recently with RoHS and WEEE. > Yeah. My company has ignored the RoHS thing entirely, except that we are concerned about tin whiskers on the leads of compliant parts. John
From: John Woodgate on 6 Aug 2006 13:32 In message <44D61DCA.6A267972(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >The country hadn't divided on religious lines. Oh, it was. And Saddam (a Sunni) was killing Shi'ites, Kurds, Marsh Arabs and others. A few Christians, too, if you think that matters. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: John Woodgate on 6 Aug 2006 13:41
In message <eb56gj$m83$3(a)blue.rahul.net>, dated Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Ken Smith <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> writes >If the money hadn't been taken away from the tax payers in the first >place some consumer item would have been developed. Most people who have studied the subject disagree. By 'pushing the envelope', the military demands are a powerful force for innovation. Go back to WW2 (and even WW1, which turned telephony and radio from curiosities into weapons) and look at what was developed as a result. By comparison, what happened between 1920 and 1940 was aimless and mostly ineffectual[1]. There is no comparable later period when military demands were not driving the development of better, smaller, cheaper electronics. [1] In 1939, RAF fighters use the TR9 radio which ran on valves/tubes developed for battery radios, with 2 V directly-heated cathodes. They were immensely fragile and about 100 mm long and 50 mm diameter. By 1945, valves/tubes for proximity fuses were about 25 mm long and 8 mm diameter, and could survive firing from guns. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |