Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: barney2 on 14 Aug 2006 10:53 In article <1155553226.039353.23180(a)h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com (Tchiowa) wrote: > *From:* "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> > *Date:* 14 Aug 2006 04:00:26 -0700 > > Culture the same in New Orleans and New York? > > I don't think so. > > Now go compare the cultural differences between Amsterdam and Brussels. Why not pick Belfast and Athens? Or Portland and Seattle?
From: Sarah Banick on 14 Aug 2006 11:29 "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1155553226.039353.23180(a)h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > > Sarah Banick wrote: >> "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:1155257645.367072.245410(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > >> > Instead try asking how many people in the US travel away from home and >> > how far the typical trip is and compare with Europe. You'll find that >> > Americans travel more. >> >> Do you have actual numbers on this? I am really curious to see if that is >> true. There are many Americans who have never been out of their state or >> region, especially those at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder. >> Their >> typical trip is to the nearest beach or amusement park. > > You're wrong about that. There was a study done a few years ago about > Americans living below the poverty line and the majority of them took > annual vacations away from home. Let's see those stats. A link will do. > >> I still agree with the others. An American driving from say, Virginia to >> California, may cover a lot of territory, but he's still in the same >> culture >> (all California jokes aside), he's still watching the same television >> programs, speaking the same language, and not using a passport or being >> exposed to the many quirks (for lack of a better word) of international >> travel. > > Culture the same in New Orleans and New York? > > I don't think so. What, they don't watch American Idol, argue about the administration in Washington, pay social security and federal income tax, and celebrate the fourth of July? The food and accents, and some state laws, are different, that's all. I charge you to find more differences than similarities between New York and New Orleans. > > Now go compare the cultural differences between Amsterdam and Brussels. > Now go get those stats.
From: mrtravel on 14 Aug 2006 11:54 The Reid 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? Weather and other obstacles can cause problems for satelite TV, plus the dish might not fit with the style of your home.
From: Jim Ley on 14 Aug 2006 12:02 On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:54:12 GMT, mrtravel <mrtravel(a)bcglobal.net> wrote: >The Reid wrote: >> how is it better than satellite or freeview? > >Weather and other obstacles can cause problems for satelite TV, plus the >dish might not fit with the style of your home. And what if you get many hundreds less channels with the cable system, does that change the decision? Jim.
From: Hatunen on 14 Aug 2006 13:33
On 14 Aug 2006 04:14:55 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >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. You must be young to think the word "Balkanized" came into common use in the 1990s. >Kind of like the rest of Europe. > >Or did you think that all those nations formed by some kind of magic? THOSE nations were formed in the aftermath of WW1, much of them in an abslent-midned manner by the diplomats at Versailles. They were formed from a plethora of even smaller nations that once existed in the area, save those that the Austrian Hungarian Empire cobbled together "Some damn thing in the Balkans." ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |