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From: Phat Bytestard on 31 Jul 2006 21:56 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:15:25 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us: > Except for Taiwan, China seems to have no >territorial ambitions at the moment. Is that why "The China Construction Bank" is the world's biggest bank right now? I think they are to be feared for their ambitions. Their overt piracy was a clue. Now, they get to play in OUR world economy, yet are still allowed to operate a full on communist rule. Stealing whatever they want along the way. Sounds like a march to me. Sum Ting Wong.
From: Phat Bytestard on 31 Jul 2006 21:58 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:08:04 GMT, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian <null(a)example.net> Gave us: > >Yeah, great, it won us a two-front war fifty years ago. > >We Won! > >We're the Champs! You're an idiot, and would never have been born had we lost. Can you even fathom that fact? Also, it was nearly 70 years ago now.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 31 Jul 2006 21:59 Phat Bytestard wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:41:52 GMT, "Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" > <eatmyshorts(a)doubleclick.net> Gave us: > > >On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:32:56 -0700, John Larkin wrote: > >> On 31 Jul 2006 07:42:26 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >>>John Larkin wrote: > >>>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:36:44 GMT, Phat Bytestard > >>>> >On 29 Jul 2006 16:17:15 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org Gave us: > >>> > >>>> Fred and Bill aren't stupid, they're just nasty. And it's a twisted > >>>> irony that even nasty people need friends. > >>> > >>>And precisely who around here is nice? > >>> > >>>Spehro Pefhany probably qualifies. Win Hill is mostly okay, but has > >>>been known to succumb to provocation. Tony Williams does seem to be > >>>utterly resistant to provocation, as do most the U.K. contingent, but > >>>that may be social conditioning, rather than intrinsic good character. > >> > >> I practise differential niceness. > >> > > > >In "A Child's Garden of Grass, a Pre-legalization Comedy", one of the > >recommended ways of acquiring free marijuana is: "Be very very nice > >to everyone you meet." :-) > > > > You've finally gone over the edge. Now, if he would just let go of the tree on the side of the cliff.... :( -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: Eeyore on 31 Jul 2006 21:55 Jim Thompson wrote: > Wait until we pass a law stating that, when fighting combatants that > don't fight under the Geneva Convention rules, we don't have to either > ;-) What change would that make ? You Americans shoot up civilians already ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 31 Jul 2006 21:56
Jim Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:24:13 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >And what are they going to do when their soldiers are *not* handed back > >unilaterally? > > > >Dirk > > You're naive. They're already dead. If Hezbollah had any sense they'd be very *alive*. I'll be curious to see. Graham |