We Are All Spaniards

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:

Well, George, you've obviously got:
a) An alternate source of income

The unemployment ran out last Summer.

b) A gigantic bank account

I have enough to last about 4 more months at the current deficit rate. Can
I
interest you in a Maule? That will build it back up pretty nicely.

c) An incredibly inexpensive lifestyle

I try to keep it as cheap as possible.

If you and your wife want a cheapish holiday, you can get a cheap
flight to the UK and stay at my place! You're quite welcome. Only
35 mins from London on the train.

I seem to remember someone else in IT on this newsgroup having to
sell his plane (Mr F?). Sad. One of my ex-bosses is now reduced to
trying to sell some American pyramid thing for some Polynesian wonder
tonic.

Still, that was one of my "outs". If I lost my job, first thing I'd do
would be to sell the plane.

Paul

In article , Tom Sixkiller wrote:
are absolutely
dependent on oil.

A hundred years ago it was manual labor intensive, using animal power.
Industry was coal fired/steam powered.

There were also fewer people to feed. Labour is also a renewable
resource.

Oil, however, isn't. I don't know when it's going to become more scarce,
but some day it will. Hopefully, it won't in my lifetime, but I somehow
doubt it - the early signs are showing, oil companies are no longer oil
companies but energy companies, Shell has not once but twice announced
that it has significantly less oil than it thought. Large nations like
China will have a greater demand for oil as their prosperity increases,
same goes for places like India.

But it also begs the question - isn't six billion enough already?

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"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
...
why Austria in particular? have you sometimes checked what Austria,
although it
is such a small country, has done and achieved (and when seen in relation
to
what we are able to do)?

Heh, this reminds me. I was with my friend Ed (ex-PPL) at Heathrow,
I think it was. We saw an Austrian airliner with pictures of Austria's
most famous people through history...

We both noticed one glaring omission.

:-)

Sorry, not a pilotical (sorry, political...geniune spelling mistake there!)
comment, just thought I'd relate this!

(there's a picture he http://www.airliners.net/open.file/330100/L/ )

Paul

"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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In article , Tom Sixkiller wrote:
are absolutely
dependent on oil.

A hundred years ago it was manual labor intensive, using animal power.
Industry was coal fired/steam powered.

There were also fewer people to feed. Labour is also a renewable
resource.

You just inverted your argument.



Oil, however, isn't.

Isn't what?

I don't know when it's going to become more scarce,
but some day it will. Hopefully, it won't in my lifetime, but I somehow
doubt it - the early signs are showing, oil companies are no longer oil
companies but energy companies,

Good, that's called diversification. Only an idiot puts all their eggs in
one basket.

Shell has not once but twice announced
that it has significantly less oil than it thought.

You know, they've had these very complaints ging back over 100 years, that
we're running out. And somehow...

Large nations like
China will have a greater demand for oil as their prosperity increases,
same goes for places like India.

And what happens when demand goes up? Think how much demand has gone up over
the past several generations.

But it also begs the question - isn't six billion enough already?

Well, 200 years ago, Malthus said 800 million was enough already.

"Frank" wrote in message ...
Tom Sixkiller wrote:


"Frank" wrote in message ...

snip

And besides, by putting someone like this in charge of the commission
could
conceivably do more to foster human rights because of the extra
scrutiny.

You're not serious, are you?

Sure, why not? You didn't miss the word 'conceivably' did you?

I at least consider the possiblity that someone who comes from a place
that
has a history of human rights abuse might have the perspective and
motivation to effectivly oppose such abuses. For all I know he may have a
long history of opposing the Lybian government, which would probably make
him a hero to folks like us.

Don't you know his track record? Does Libya have a track record of harboring
disidents? Recall, too, that Sudan was also on the Human Rights Council.

Here's a hint- The UN is clueless regarding human rights.

Diplomat, former journalist? I've never heard of him, does he have some
record of human rights abuse? Or does he have a history of speaking out
against oppression?

From Libya? You're not serious, are you?

Yeah I'm serious. I asked the question because I have never heard of this
person. Apparently you have since you are so sure he is absolutely the
wrong choice for such a position.

Given Libya's history, that's a pretty fair assumption.

I'm asking what he has done that should
disqualify him. I mean, as an educated, free thinking person you wouldn't
expect me to assume that a person is good or bad based solely on his
passport?

If they worked for the Libyan government, it's a pretty safe bet.

I don't know anything of him personally, but what I did hear is that he's
declared Israel has no right to exist, so take it from there.

"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
...

We both noticed one glaring omission.

That would be Kurt Waldheim, right?

In article , Frank writes:



Since all the econimic activity is in Israel, and that is where the work
is, a Palestinian state will still mean passing through Israeli
checkpoints to get to work.

Don


Thanks, I forgot to consider that after the creation of a new state there is
no possibility of anything else changing in the peoples lives. And those
principles of capitalism we usually apply everywhere else would never work
in a place like that.



If they were working there, the West Bank and Gaza would be self sufficient
now, and no one would be crossing into Israel proper already.

Probably the worst thing we could do to the 'Palestinains' would be to let them
wipe out Israel, since without the Israelies providing them employment they
would all starve to death.

Don

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG

Dylan Smith wrote:
In article pDV8c.98339$Cb.1264816@attbi_s51, Jay Honeck wrote:

I doubt things have improved much -- although, if your reproduction rates
keep dropping, your welfare states will soon evaporate.


There are *far* too many people on this planet - a drop in reproduction
rates is a *good* thing. The oil isn't going to last forever, and our
highly productive intensive agricultural systems are absolutely
dependent on oil. Humans need to downsize, or the Earth will downsize
us.

No problem. When the oil runs out in a few hundred years, if ever, we
will have already been using a different technology for awhile. There
are already electric cars. Hydrogen fuel cells are being used by a few
cities now, etc.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
news

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
newsCn8c.84520$Cb.1106337@attbi_s51...
If a conversation about world politics so upsets your delicate
nature,
I
can
only wonder how you survive in the real world.
Jerk!

Wow -- you must've thought long and hard on that one before pushing
"Send"...

Yes...for him.

Why is it that people of your ilk can't seem to discuss world events
like
gentlemen?

Probably because he's NOT a gentleman, and he certainly doesn't seem
mature.
Petulant brat is more the indication. No wonder so many not only _want_ a
welfare state, but NEED one.

Redneck

In article , Dylan Smith
wrote:

Have you watched any TV in the UK? 'nuff said.

Even worse, have you watched TV in the US? :-)

less and less.

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--
Bob Noel