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Peter Larsen

Jan 1, 1970
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Which dollar? Another vague question, as usual. Two of the groups
are Australian, so it would imply you are asking about their dollar.

Not vague in as much as it was a question to a very american american
poster.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Iain said:
"Joe Kotroczo" wrote

Hi Joe.
Where do I find these headers in Outlook Express?

I dare say someone's already answered in detail but it can be found under
properties IIRC with the message selected. In Netscape it's simply
view>headers>all

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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53 btw now I checked. There are more countries in the Commonwealth (which accounts for
approx 1/3 of the world's population) than there are states in the USA. And that's
even after "Zimbabwe was suspended in 2002 over concerns with the electoral and land
reform policies of Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF government"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations#Suspensions

Also see....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations#Applicants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations_membership_criteria#Prospective_members

Yes, even the USA would be eligible to join !

...
Reg:
All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever
given us in return?
Xerxes: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That's true.
Masked Activist:
And the sanitation!
Stan:
Oh yes... sanitation, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.
Reg:
All right, I'll grant you that the aqueduct and the sanitation are
two things that the Romans have done...
Matthias:
And the roads...

http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/whattheromans.html

Very briefly (before the Common Market as it was then IIRC) FRANCE applied to join the
Commonwealth. I think we may have been foolish to turn them down.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Les said:
I think the great innovation of the Revolution was the denial of
absolute political power to a divine right monarch, but that
wasn't even that new. But we go back and forth - the grass is always
greener - once "imperial" Presidencies show weakness, we go
the other way.

Thinks GWB and Tony Blair (not President but he behaved like one).

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Uh ? Been there, done it centuries before. Very smartly too, based almost entirely
on trade rather than military force.


For a little longer maybe.

This is just ridiculous, Arny. Stop it. You are embarrassing yourself.

I couldn't agree more. It's sad to see how quite intelligent people can fail to
have a good grasp of world history.

How about going back to the days of Carthage, Troy and Rome ?

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Les said:
I see. Who was William the Ba^H^H Conquerror? :) (I kid, Grahama).

Part of Britain's strength has always been its adaptability to accomadate
'immigrants'.

That's largely irrelevant to the point at hand. And the
indigenous population wanted to use the... "white-eyes"
as a strategic ally against other indigenous populations.

They chose poorly.

There's venality and error enough for everybody involved. If
you dig deep enough into even Jackson's story, you find
that the Cherokee had internecine conflict that enabled
that significantly.

I'm sure that's so, but even so, the displacement of the tribes to
reservations is nothing to be proud of.

The Western plains tribes were more unfortunate, but
such was the understanding of people at the time. Without
Manifest Destiny, there would have been no America. The
railroads were critical.


So what was that Ghandi guy so upset about? :)

He just wanted independence (i.e the ability to rule themselves). The
British had already built an Indian Parliament in around 1912 but it was
not based on universal suffrage and consequently was not a success. Have
you see the film Ghandi ? It's AWESOME. It is a serious 'must see'. It
explains a lot, including the problem with Pakistan.

Incidentally I know an Indian businessman who perfectly seriously reckons
India STILL isn't ready for universal suffrage ! He feels it's held India
back technologically and economically.

The Boers were stranded/isolated, mainly by the bankruptcy of the
Dutch East India Company.

Plus the Boers themselves started the war that finished off the their
complete independence by attacking British areas of SA. Even so, after that
they were still accorded special rights.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Les said:
Media does not have an educational nor *really* a public-goods
charter. Unless you want to see BBC style gummint organs
of media (which is not a bad model at all), you'll get what
you get.

Not sure what you mean there. The government in power here invariably claims the
BBC is biased against it. Sounds good to me.

As for charters, the BBC has (had?) one under Reith (an early Director General).
To educate, inform and entertain.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Les said:
Florida is nothing but a military outpost with pretensions to
real estate speculation. Has been since Osceola and Al
Capone, respectively. Tourism is recent, and limited
to certain regions which have developed a really nasty
crime problem recently...

It also serves as a mythic Shangri La for people from New York City,
at least since "Midnight Cowboy". They buy beach condos and then
don't live in them.

The Brevard County seat is Titusville. The first
telephone line in a county building was in the courthouse in Titusville
around 1950. It was not named after Titus Andronicus, but it should have
been... the point being, there was nobody here.

But the weather is awesome.

Awesomely humid too I hear which wouldn't attract me.

I am referring to the "lower Alabama" portions of Florida, not Miami,
which is an ostensibly South American outpost that nobody really
understands.

Interesting post. I wish I understood it better.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Les said:
These were not unprincipled people, and trying to make a novel out of it
simply won't work. Who was a "good guy"/"bad guy" depends on too much
detail to bother.

Plus who wins gets to write the book !

The Founders were a lot broke-arse land speculators, the British
proper snubbed them socially and mistakes were made.

But the bottom line is that communications were impossible, and
things get worse when that is true.

It didn't help that trans-Atlantic voyages by sailing ship were necessary to
discuss matters. And they WERE discussed too. Very seriously. The falling out
was possibly just pure bad luck.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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keithr said:
Outlook Express is a horrible news reader

Netscape 4.8 is almost perfect for the job (at least for text groups with unsplit
posts).

Simple, does the job. No silly graphics. Available from their archive site.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Arny said:
"Eeyore" wrote


Well yes, they were both composed of buildings. While the US accommodations
were spartan, the survival rate was very, very high. The US paid tens of
millions in compensation, and issued formal apologies.

Note that Canada interned tens of thousands of Japanese at the same time.
Thus, the British Commonwealth is in no position to point an accusing
finger.


True, Kitchener's "Scorched Earth" policy was about total destruction, not
confiscation.

There was a very high death rate in the British concentration camps due to
disease and malnutrition.The disposition of the property of the thousands of
dead hardly mattered to them.

Interesting what the allegedly superior British educational system does not
teach...

Big difference. The Japanese Americans weren't actually fighting you. The Dutch
(Boers) were however fully at war with us.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Arny said:
Note the congenital disrespect of the US from countries that we saved from
total destruction at least twice: UK & France.

Who says either truly disrespect you ? As opposed to your relatively recent
behaviour.

I used to be terribly pro-USA until a few brain dead Presidents caused
worldwide conflict.

It's one reason I dropped my Republican (i.e. anti-Royal) feelings. The thought
of Margaret Thatcher as President is enough to make my blood run cold. And I
dare say she could have been.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Arny said:
I note that voting in the UK and most other countries is also restricted to
citizens

You need to educate yourself. The Irish (Republic of) can vote in UK elections
for one and have been able to do so since time immemorial. Also I think now can
any resident EU citizens.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Arny said:
The dollar is still the official legal tender in many countries other than
the US. And defacto legal tender in many more.

There's a few non-EU countries using the Euro too.

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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Les said:
The literature is what's know as "agitprop". It's a part of the
story. Your statement can easily be untrue without being
false - it is a partial truth.

Like AGW !

Graham
 
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Eeyore

Jan 1, 1970
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David said:
You need a better news reader! I use Forte Agent
<http://www.forteinc.com/> which provides kill options to mark the
post as read, delete the post or delete the post and all follow ups.
It also enables you to delete a sub-thread so you can ignore the
exchange between two posters having an off-topic argument in a thread
that you are interested in. It costs $US30.00 but I have been told
that the free Xnews <http://xnews.newsguy.com/> has similar features.

Forte Agent is a very powerful tool but way more than most people need.

I use Netscape 4.8 and you might be surpised to see how many other people do
too. Does what it says on the box as they say. And FREE from their archives.

Should you need a killfile a free add-on is available too but I forget its
name. Google should know.

Graham
 
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liquidator

Jan 1, 1970
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Eeyore said:
Uh ? Been there, done it centuries before. Very smartly too, based almost entirely
on trade rather than military force.

power.

For a little longer maybe.



I couldn't agree more. It's sad to see how quite intelligent people can fail to
have a good grasp of world history.

How about going back to the days of Carthage, Troy and Rome ?

Graham

The operative word in blind patriotism is blind.
 
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keithr

Jan 1, 1970
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Arny Krueger said:
I note that voting in the UK and most other countries is also restricted
to citizens, so you are whining about a policy that is in fact accepted
reality.

The taxes you paid were substantially the ones in force when you got your
visa. You were offered a deal, you took it, and now you apparently wish to
whine about it.

Not my problem. I guess you should have stayed home. ;-)


Jeeze you yanks are very touchy about criticism of you country while feeling
free to criticise the rest of the world. Read my lips, I am not complaining
about paying tax whilst living there, taxes unfortunately are a fact of
life. What I am pointing out is the hypocrisy of making "No taxation without
representation" a basic part of the revolution and then taxing people who
have no representation.



I enjoyed my time over there, and am quite happy now knowing that out of the
places where I have lived for significant periods of time (Australia, UK,
US, and Japan), Australia is far and away the best.



Keith
 
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