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a) 2 good posts in 2 days – very worrying

b) the US war of independence is sometimes considered a second english civil war – ie the uk opposition was for what the us independence people wanted – democractic lberal reforms

rabie 😉

Then again your looking at a lot of scuds, frogs, etc, etc (with conventional warheads) as well as arty

The Larry Bond book on a conventional Korean war, Seoul is built with this in mind and is sturdily built with bomb shelters, etc, etc but I don’t know for sure

rabie 😉

I found this out – the 3x optical is great on my camera but not enough for what I use it for (bike photos)…….. digital zoom is ****e

Digital camera’s are a whole new world of photography – you point (you prefocus – saves 3 seconds) and shoot (results is 1 second latter) – so it’s slower than a normal camera (if you prefoucs 1 sec, if not like 3 or 4).

But what is really great you look at the photo you just took on the preview screen, bear in mind you can chop it, blow it up or enlarge and then keep it or delete it. I have a big enough memory to take 100 great quality photos (NB remember to get quite a bit of memory as on board memory is tiny).

But you have to print them out if you want traditional photos – personally they go on my website so no bother but if not ………

rabie 😉

C (avec rumsfield, wooferzitz, etc)

powell is alright guy, so is McCain, and so are soem democracts

if was voting in the last election i possible would have wanted McCain but its thier country (not mine)

and with such a poor choice :rolleyes: :p well …….

anyway he isn’t as bad as we all feared but not the best …………..

there is a huge gap between how americans think, brits think and euroepans think – just bear that in mind

rabie 😉

I’ve lost count of the number of forums that collectively give me a rollicking about my typing/spelling

I’m also pissed off at my point not getting across because its in gobbledygook

so…….

I’m using the MS Word spellchecker and ctrl+c and ctrl+v on big rants 😉

rabie 😉

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Great discussion – taking a ELP like back seat (though i have yet to reach for the beer)

Well done to the non EU parts of the UK/GB & NI/ Whatever for being very euro sceptic and well done to keltic for going on so long

Personally I am pro Europe with reservations

What the euros (i.e. Geforce) can’t do is sell the EU concept to a VERY sceptical public. You got a COMMON MARKET through by the narrowest of margins and the grunts out there feel they’ve been mis-sold this euro concept

to the “grunts” as I call them 😛 they visit Spain – for as keltic puts is “SSS” – and want to drink in a pub, speak English and eat English food – to me this is disgusting and pointless but I’m in the minority

Most EU reforms don’t benefit or effect these people all they see the EU is an un-elected bureaucratic nightmare that they have no control over that taxes them and gives them nothing back

So what you’ve got to do is SELL them the EU concept

To me an integrated federal EU with very autonomous regions can only do ALL our economies BETTER but you haven’t sold this to the public over here

As Snapper says the commission is a joke, proven corrupt and the parliament is useless – the reform / answer is very complex and I wouldn’t know

on the survey front its is generally acknowledged that

ahh well done lads and lasses 😉

rabie 😉

i got given for my birthday a Kodak LS443 digital cmarea, 3x optical zoom, 128mb memorey, 4 megapixles

it snot bad and im haivng fun with it at motobike meeting – have yet to go plane snapping with it yet

while on one hand i would liek a posher one it would be bigger (this one fits in my pocket) and it would take up more webspace (just past 60mb for my website :rolleyes: )

rabie 😉

Originally posted by TTP
You guys don’t get it, The amount of money the US spends on defence is Huge, but still only a very small part of our national budget, and no offence ,but Many smaller countries can be neutral, but when the chips are down, you know it will probably be the US to come help.

No you miss the point – your $370bn works out at something like 17% (I recently checked), which is A LOT by our standards over here. The UK gets a great defence on the cheap.

So what I’m saying is yes you have low tax but it could be lower because your military is unnecessarily large/expensive (but as you go on to say the money isn’t spent on the grunts)

I notice many Europeans are amazed that we don’t have Health care for all in the US but the majority of the people here don’t want it! Americans don’t view governmennt as a solution to most problems, usually government is the cause of many problems. Its ineficient, slow, andLike I said before, tax me less and I will provide the health coverage for my family, at a cheaper price and better service. As a military man, I can vouch that the healthcare I recieve in the Air Force is poor compared to the coverage at my civilian job, and if the governmnet can’t take care of healthy young people in the military what kind of job will they do for the rest of society. By the way I travel around the world and rarely do I meet anyone who thinks socialized medicine is good, You may feel its free, but your probably paying, $600 a month in extra taxes, whereas I may pay $300 for better private.
Freedom is a wonderful thing, freedom from government interference in your life is great too, its what makes the US great, although inequalities do occur. No easy answer, but the government is no solution. This I feel is the huge difference in Ideology between the US and Europe. I can’t explain this any further, My Father left Italy and became wealthy here with no formal education or skills, largely because he was free to pursue his goals free of most rules and regulations/taxes, that may discourage many others. I for one would never try to start a business if the government will take half of my money., and when incentive is lost ,society stagnates and everyone becomes content just to get by……….sad, thats what happened under the communists and alot of socialism leads in this same direction eventually.

Last I herd some 40 million Americans don’t have healthcare

To us over here (even in relatively right wing Britain) this is unacceptable. The rich who in your example pay $600 for $300 of healthcare accept this on the basis they will get emergency care without producing a chequebook and that they acknowledge that part of living here is that EVERYONE gets healthcare which is something we as a society accept as a necessity and to us, your society non recognition of healthcare’s necessity status is somewhat shocking

I can assure you that the gov is inefficient and the NHS is a living monument to this and perhaps some part privatisation of this (maybe sub contracting ???) ……….

On the wonders of government I wouldn’t come to such a minimalist conclusion but you are free to 😉

I wouldn’t attribute American economic success to your freedom form government interference – America has large unexploited resources, a large population that is skilled. A single market of 270 million people with easy transport and HUGE economies of scale is what I would attribute it too. Italy has been a disunited country for some time, and only the north enjoys prosperity and south is lacking. Europe until very recently and not even really yet enjoys the same economic conditions. Until we get true freedom of movement, common language and common currency the ability to exploit 450 million people will lead Europe to exceed north America but only then.

Re your last bit, what I’m saying is not socialism (“god dam commies”) but the European situation – on average the gov takes 40% over here (UK), it’s different on the continent BUT its relative. If everyone in the same boat then everyone still is entrepreneurial. ALL humans want more money to get better goods and services – the basic economic problem 😉

PS I believe Defence spending in the US accounts for only 4% of our gross domestic spending, but also it contributes to many high tech well-paying jobs, and expands the boundaries of science and technology, as well as preserving the peace, or putting a hurt on someone who deserves it!!!!

GDP is very misleading from an economic point of view – the 17% of your federal budget when compared to other nations budgets (and bearing in mind what services said budgets give out) is much more interesting

But leaving the “military-industrial complex” in place just as a jobs programme :rolleyes: – come on. You do spend a lot on R&D but I think some of the investment doesn’t have the level of civilian cross over you give it credit for

Take say the 1920’s – record low US defence spending yet high innovation. I think that industry is capable of R&D itself and military R&D has today little crossover value

BTW – sorry this is so late been VERY busy

rabie 😉