$640.00 to fill the tanks...

"Bob Moore" wrote in message
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Michelle Settle wrote
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I notice that there's virtually ZERO
self-employed people below the poverty line.

Have you talked to any flight instructors lately?

Bob Moore

The one I have been using is doing quit nicely.

The main thing is that he IS EMPLOYED, not sitting on his duff, waiting for
the phone to ring, in a vastly saturated line of work.

I would have loved to have been a movie star, but Sally Field had a virtual
lock on roles for very short actresses.

Michelle

"Newps" wrote in message
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Grumman-581 wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:15:43 GMT, john smith wrote:

Educated populations tend to stop or slow down procreating.
an article in the Wall Street Journal stated that some countries with low
birth rates which already have a childbirth incentive are contemplating
increasing it.


To follow this logic to its full conclusion, we end up with the world
being overpopulated by the idiots... Just like when I see a woman with
4 kids in the grocery store... "FOUR kids? Couldn't figure out what
causes it or are you just CATHOLIC?"


What's wrong with four kids?

If statistics I've seen are any indication, it's that it is very likely
someone was subsidizing them.

Michelle

In article ,
David Wright wrote:

It takes 5 hours to travel from London to Edinburgh by train, at a cost of
around £80 ($160). Whereas, book early enough, and you can fly from London
Luton (about 30 miles out of London) to Edinburgh with low cost carrier
easyJet.com for around £20 ($40) in just under 50 minutes.


There is a Top Gear episode in which they buy cars and drive them
from London to some nearby town for less than the train ticket would have
costed them... I was shocked.


--
Eduardo K. |
http://www.carfun.cl | "World domination, now"
http://e.nn.cl | Linus Torvalds

That was said about IBM before DEC and Microsoft came along. And DEC before Dell came along. And GM before Toyota came along. And Toyota before Hyundai came along...

Yes, it was. But IBM and Microsoft are in different businesses. DEC
and Dell are in different businesses. It is that that caused the
upheaval. But in any case, big companies can compete with big
companies, and sometimes little companies can find a niche (there was a
satellite pager company that did some business with truckers - became
MCI) and grow from there.

Nonetheless, as far as =consumers= are concerned, there is little influence.

No, I didn't miss the point at all. The point is you have choices and can use the free market system to fight back.

Yes, you missed the point completely. Regarding WalMart, RFID and
privacy, I can choose to never ever shop at Walmart, and the privacy
issues will be just as problematic. It is not =my= shopping at WalMart
that invades my privacy, it is the result of =other= people shopping
there that does.

As someone who is working with RFID technology, it isn't as capable as many in the media have made it out to be.

Yet.

When it is, it will be so entrenched people won't know what hit them.

Jose
--
The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:08:04 -0600, Newps wrote:
What's wrong with four kids?

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources? Maybe you like living like a sardine, but I
don't... More people should choose to have one kid at the most...
Unfortunately, it tends to be the uneducated people who have the most
kids... Genetically, this is not good for the species... We're
breeding a population of minimum wage McDonalds workers...

Grumman-581 wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:08:04 -0600, Newps wrote:
What's wrong with four kids?

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?

Well, I'll be dead before that happens. The problem right now is that
people have more kids than they can afford...but that wouldn't be a
problem if the government would stop paying for them.

Unfortunately, it tends to be the uneducated people who have the most
kids...

Ok, I'll agree on that one. Unfortunately, as someone already pointed
out, bad things happen when we try to limit the number or type of
children that people have.

What's wrong with four kids?
Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet

Kids are not fungible. Four wonderful kids trumps one antisocial loser.
We need more wonderful kids, and fewer of the other kind.

Jose
--
The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:35:02 -0500, Emily
wrote:
What's wrong with having four kids as long as you can pay for all of
them? (And keep them away from me)

Other than a geometric increase of the population whereas we only have
a fixed about of resources? Frankly, I believe that the planet would
be better off with just a quarter of the people who are currently
populating it... Of course, in my position of The Arbiter of Truth in
The Universe, I get to choose which 75% to remove... If a tough job,
but someone's got to do it...

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:09:46 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:
It is certainly possible. This is OT, but we just studied Revelation
again in church and when you look at implantable tags and think what is
possible already, it is chilling. As soon as they suggest implants in
the right hand or forehead... :-)

Are you saying that implanting them in the left hand or the butt is
more acceptable to you?

Jose wrote:

Yes, you missed the point completely. Regarding WalMart, RFID and
privacy, I can choose to never ever shop at Walmart, and the privacy
issues will be just as problematic. It is not =my= shopping at WalMart
that invades my privacy, it is the result of =other= people shopping
there that does.

This makes no sense at all. How so?

Matt