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From: The Reid on 28 Jul 2006 05:37 Following up to Padraig Breathnach >>> But it's not worth my while. Your approach to argument is (to put it >>> mildly) unsatisfactory. >Go away and play with little people who might be impressed with >slogans and assertions as forms of argument. I stopped just in time it seems, didnt want to be joining the little people at the bottom of the garden.:-) -- Mike Reid 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" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
From: Dave Frightens Me on 28 Jul 2006 06:23 On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:06:08 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> That is a very unscientific view. > >You don't need to be a scientist to count the dead. Or to form an anecdotal view. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Miguel Cruz on 28 Jul 2006 06:23 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Miguel Cruz writes: >> This isn't what actually happens. I am sitting in front of the >> computer with one fan and my skin is dry to the touch. The humidity >> today is in the high 80s. > > Your skin is never dry. You're just losing water to evaporation > before you notice it accumulating on your skin. Thanks, perfesser. I said it was "dry to the touch." You claimed I'd be dripping with sweat. >> Lose what? People here are happy and comfortable. > > Well, no, they aren't. In hot climates without air conditioning, it's > routine to complain continually about the heat. People in cold climates complain about the cold, people in wet climates complain about the rain. This doesn't say that they're unhappy (how could you make such a claim?), it reflects that it is human nature to complain now and then, and that the weather is an inoffensive target for complaints (except in rec.travel.europe). miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu
From: Miguel Cruz on 28 Jul 2006 06:33 "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > If you look at the poorer sections of Bangkok as you drive through > you'll see A/C units mounted on a substantial portion of them. Wooden > houses that don't seem (and probably aren't) sealed well enough to > fully take advantage of A/C still have them. You can't easily drive through the really poor sections of Bangkok. I'll take you on a tour sometime when I'm up there. > And remember that Bangkok is largely middle class (the poor are a small > and shrinking minority in Bangkok). So the poor are not representative > of Bangkok. I agree that their numbers seem to be shrinking over the years, but there are still an awful lot of them. I just googled around the stats but couldn't find anything that looked particularly reliable, unfortunately. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu
From: Dave Frightens Me on 28 Jul 2006 06:36
On 27 Jul 2006 17:19:02 -0700, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >The Reid wrote: > ><Obstinate denial that you mis-spoke despite undeniable proof snipped, >not worth the effort to repeat the proof> > >> >"Yesterday's battles"??? There was a discussion about medical care >> >*TODAY*, economic policy *TODAY*, etc. Those are today's discussions. >> >People like you are still trying to cling to an economic philosophy >> >that failed. >> >> Nonsence, I live and work in a free market capitalist system that >> chooses to fund medical care from taxes, that isnt a failed >> communist state. you dont seem to be able to differentiate the >> two. > >You don't seem to understand that what you just described is called >"Socialism". > >> I'm looking at economic mechanisms that will be needed in the >> *future*, you are looking at the past, seeing capitalism beat >> communism and basing all your thinking around that one point.. > >Again you demonstrate a basic lack of understanding. Capitalism didn't >"beat" Communism. Communism/Socialism failed all by itself. Socialism >is a fatally flawed theory and any attempt to implement it will always >fail over time. That has been proven over and over again. The opposite is currently being demonstrated in the PRC. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |