Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Hatunen on 17 Aug 2006 14:44 On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:09:06 +0100, The Reid <dontuse(a)fell-walker.co.uk> wrote: >Following up to Hatunen > >>>Which reminds me that I owe a friend in Belgium a nice picture of >>>the Olympics, of which we have a very good view from our west- >>>facing living-room window. >> >>Be sure to be ready on the one day a year when the drizzle and >>clouds have lifted enough to actually see them. > >that's usually a feature of mountains away from over hot areas >and adds vastly to the beauty and fascination. I think tht's what I was implying. I have no idea what "away from over hot areas" means. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Hatunen on 17 Aug 2006 14:51 On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:50:54 -0500, barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: >In article <1155828906.645531.258360(a)m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>, >tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com (Tchiowa) wrote: >> > Finland is not a Scandinavian country, better brush up your geography. >> >> It was in Scandinavia when I was there. Did they move it? >> >> http://www.goscandinavia.com/ >> >> "Welcome to the Official Website of the Scandinavian Tourist Boards in >> North America. Please feel free to browse the country websites of >> Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden." >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia#Terminology_and_usage >> >> Geographically the Scandinavian peninsula includes mainland Sweden and >> mainland Norway, and also a part of Finland >> > >The beginning of that page states: > >"The original and most common definition includes continental Denmark, >mainland Norway and Sweden." > >and goes on to say: > >"Sometimes Finland is included" Finns do not call themselves Scandinavians; they conider themselves a Nordic country, a term which covers Finland plus the Scandinavian countries (Estonia is trying to claim Nordicness). It is not only the Scandinavian Peninsula that matters, and Finland barely extends on to the Peninsula (depending on where you define the Peninsula to begin), but also the fact that Denmark, Sweden and Norway speak Scandinavian languages (if indeed they be distinct languages); language and settlement history is why Iceland also considers itself a Scandinavian country. ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Dave Frightens Me on 17 Aug 2006 15:47 On 17 Aug 2006 08:14:09 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Dave Frightens Me wrote: >> On 16 Aug 2006 17:16:06 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >The Euro's opinion of themselves? >> >> No. You're insistence on putting all "Euro's" together illustrates a >> flaw in your thinking. > >You mean kind of like the way you (and others) have lumped Americans >together? You apparently consider them comparable, and thus demonstrate your idiocy. >> >Which part do you disagree with? The fact that Europe is chopped up >> >into little political units because of a millenium of bigotry and war? >> >> The use of the word 'bigotry' is just bizarre. > >It wasn't bigotry that was at the root of many or most of the wars that >created the borders? Of course it was. Bigotry had nothing to do with it. Of course I don't know what you are specifically referring to, but you're pretty good at that. >> >The fact the European economy is lagging far, far behind the US? The >> >fact that unemployment in most of Europe is roughly double what it is >> >in the US? >> > >> >Your denial or reality doesn't make these facts go away. >> >> My denial or reality? What the hell are you trying to say? Maybe you >> are on crack or yaa baa or something. > >Ah, a typical juvenile response. Indicates you have no logical >argument. Thank you for the surrender. You can plonk me if you really think you've won. >>> >> >> That is meaningless, as you included "real", which could mean anything. >> >> > >> >> >No, Jordi included "real". I quoted him. >> >> > >> >> >Try to keep up. >> >> >> >> Getting a bit defensive are we? I never aimed that one at you. >> > >> >Then you should be careful where you embed your reply. You embedded it >> >following *my* statement, not anyone else's. >> >> And it wasn't an attack. You are jumping at shadows. > >I never said it was an attack. Your tenuous grasp on reality is showing >again. You did say "Try to keep up", which was a personal attack on me. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: mrtravel on 17 Aug 2006 16:42 Hatunen wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:37:31 GMT, mrtravel > <mrtravel(a)bcglobal.net> wrote: > > >>Hatunen wrote: >> >> >>>It looks more to me like a subdued threat to the Maltese that >>>Randall is a US citizen so don't try any funny stuff. It was only >>>a couple of decades after the US went after the barbary Pirates. >>> >>>Interesting that it's a printed form. >> >>It's a passport. Passports back then didn't come in a little book. > > > Why is it a passport? How do you define passport? > Why not do a bit of research yourself? Passports have existed for a very long time. From: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: An official government document that certifies one's identity and citizenship and permits a citizen to travel abroad [French passeport, from Old French : passer, to pass; see pass + port, port; see port1.] (This is logical. What languages is your passport written in?)
From: BB on 17 Aug 2006 18:59
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:08:28 -0700, Hatunen wrote: > Be sure to be ready on the one day a year when the drizzle and > clouds have lifted enough to actually see them. That's our favorite misconception, which we do our best to keep alive. :-) -- -BB- To e-mail me, unmunge my address |