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Re: [I] Taxes // was Lilac Day

2008-07-07T03:52:58Z

I think it helps that you're quite good at flogging items. ;)

Re: [I] Taxes // was Lilac Day

2008-07-06T23:11:14Z

Scríobh Alec Cawley <a...@spamspam.co.uk>:
The fiduciary promise is even deeper than that. You don't just believe
there's gold, you believe the gold will be worth something. And since
the gold standard was abandoned, you don't even believe that. These
days, you just believe that the bits of foreign paper your government

Re: -[M] Re: moneybookers spam?? PHISHING e-mail advice

2008-07-06T22:52:13Z

In a speech called g4qu9u$un...@mud.stack.nl,
Janaina Rudberg <cl5jr...@cling.gu.se> said:
If there really is no way to cancel your account, that could very
well be infringing on your rights as a consumer. If you are no
longer satisfied with a service for some reason, you have the
right to instruct the supplier of that service to stop supplying

Re: [I] Taxes // was Lilac Day

2008-07-06T22:46:46Z

The proposed transactions tax is different from Sales Tax (levied only
on allegely "final" transactions) or VAT (transitive - you reclaim VAT
paid to suppliers against VAT charged to customers). It is leveie on
every transaction without exception (it my be life-saving, but you still
pay tax) and it is non-refundable (I don't care when yor how you go your

Re: [I] Taxes // was Lilac Day

2008-07-06T22:31:54Z

[snip]
Must have created tension . . .

Re: Wanna bet?:

2008-07-06T22:31:02Z

Ornithography, but no doubt someone has defined that as reading the
omens of bird guts.

Re: [I] Taxes // was Lilac Day

2008-07-06T22:18:07Z

Hi there,
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:09:22 +0100, Alec Cawley <a...@spamspam.co.uk>
wrote:
When I was (a lot!) younger, I considered my ideal job to be one where
I didn't have to work too hard and I made enough money to keep me in a
comfortable manner.
I think I'm doing pretty well on that, albeit not in a way that I'd

Re: Wandering back in...

2008-07-06T22:18:07Z

Hi there,
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:59:50 +1000, "Nisaba Merrieweather"
Thank you (although, technically I'm an April one ;-) )
Get hedgehogged? Bugger th...
... ah... erm...
Ah, but do you know what I look like...?!
Cheers,
Graham.
Nil Flagellate Sine Lucre

Re: Wanna bet?:

2008-07-06T22:18:07Z

Hi there,
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:50:44 -0400, Elliott Grasett
It depends on what sort of birds you're communicating with...!
Cheers,
Graham.
Nil Flagellate Sine Lucre

Re: Wandering back in...

2008-07-06T22:18:07Z

Hi there,
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:30:09 GMT, Dom <dom...@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
In which case, remind me who you are :-)
(I've finally got myself a badge that says "If I know you, please
remind me!")
Cheers,
Graham.
Nil Flagellate Sine Lucre

Re: [F] Esmeraldus Birthday Meet, London 10th August

2008-07-06T22:18:07Z

Hi there,
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:11:13 -0400, "Esmeraldus"
I do hope so.
BTW There are other events around the same time, for instance on the
2nd of August there's Brighton Pride which is probably the biggest
event of its type in the UK or, if you can't get to Brighton, there's
also Kinkfest on the same day (unfortunately) which is held at Conway

Re: Pterry on Religion

2008-07-06T22:18:27Z

I think you are projecting *much* too much from your own
thoughts/experience onto PTerry's words.
ISTM there are three essentially orthogonal attributes of "God" in out
current society:
1. The Creator
2. A potential manipulator of the world - one who could answer prayers
for rain/money/children/whatever

Re: [I] Wandering back in...

2008-07-06T22:09:58Z

Ditto!
But she *did* organise a very successful one :-)
Good to "see" you again :-)
Ssirienna

Re: Pterry on Religion

2008-07-06T22:07:10Z

Which relies on the testimony of a single person, not a member of his
normal circle, who was an evangelical Christian with a massive axe to
grind. One woman (titled), claims to ahve had a deathbed conversation
with him. Or, in other words, as dodgy as testimony ever comes - about
as reliable as the unanimous word of the patrons of the Mended Drum.

Re: [I] Taxes // was Lilac Day

2008-07-06T22:01:14Z

HUGE assertion.Proof? I agree that >0 people want to be productive - but
the cab between that and "most" is enormous. I would allege that
industry is learned early. Thos who, perforce, have to become
industrious before 20 (approx) remain so for the rest of their lives.
But those who are handed idleness on a plate in their teens never learn