Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Tchiowa on 14 Aug 2006 07:14 The Reid wrote: > Following up to Sarah Banick > > >Hey, watch your attributions. I know that it's only the Balkans that are > >balkanized (they are mountained?) > > Ah, I see, you have quoted text without quote thingies. Trying to > trick me, hah. You were lucky I didint do a long explanation of > the history of Europe and the European colonies and how native > americans, if left alone would have become small nation states, > so its one of the loons who thinks Europe "Balkanised", one of > the ones I dont read anymore I expect, Tchowa reverse engineered > history, possibly? Balkanized is a term that came into common use during the 1990s when Yugoslavia came apart and the Balkans erupted into war. Balkanized means that the area has been chopped up into small independent political entities based on mutual hatred. Kind of like the rest of Europe. Or did you think that all those nations formed by some kind of magic?
From: Jim Ley on 14 Aug 2006 07:33 On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:08:01 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >Following up to Hatunen > >>>I assume its largely true then, except for some trivial nitpick. >>>Why is *cable* TV important? I'm about to ditch mine. >> >>Well, I've seen Finnish TV without cable, and trust me, cable is >>important. > >how is it better than satellite or freeview? It doesn't have a poxy red-button, but that's more an advantage of not being in the UK. Jim.
From: The Reid on 14 Aug 2006 08:13 Following up to Mxsmanic >Six seconds a day is poor time by just about any definition of the >past century or so. That's half an hour a year. > >I had an inexpensive little quartz watch from Texas Instruments for >years that was accurate to about two seconds per year. mine was a freebie, it looks OK, (I hate digital display types) probably gets out by e few seconds here and there but as I'm not giving the word to start WW3 by nuking Iran and Syria (you heard it here first) It doesn't matter much. -- Mike Reid I will agree bendybuses are a good idea when they build bungalows on Mayfair Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
From: The Reid on 14 Aug 2006 08:13 Following up to Jim Ley >>how is it better than satellite or freeview? > >It doesn't have a poxy red-button, but that's more an advantage of not >being in the UK. what does that do? My mother in laws freeview seem to have one, I tried pressing when the man said, nothing happened. -- Mike Reid I will agree bendybuses are a good idea when they build bungalows on Mayfair Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
From: Jim Ley on 14 Aug 2006 08:32
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:29:30 GMT, "a.spencer3" <a.spencer3(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >For sports events, for instance, you can select which tennis match/field >event/soccer match, whatever, you prefer to watch instead of the mainstream >event.. Seperate channels would be much better for that. Jim. |