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Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends (It's not about tour buses)

2010-03-19T16:06:45Z

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:36:59 -0400, Mark Lipton
Thanks for the tips, Mark. We're always interested in new
wineries that are producing wines we like. - Tony

Re: Wanna Place Order for Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Online

2010-03-19T15:40:43Z

In article <Xns9D3FE970EAB70ibmsvpalo...@ 216.196.97.131>,
You're funny, Ian. Google is the premier spammer. The only reason
they'd want to get rid of spammers using their services, would be to
reduce the competition.

Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends (was re: Ritz Carlton "It's not liver")

2010-03-19T15:31:13Z

What's discouraging about environmental protection is the way it
becomes just another a sounding board for you to broadcast your moral
superiority. Do you not see how similar your posts are to Tim May's?
He's the smartest man in Watsonville, you're the smartest man in
Berkeley, and neither of you would be much fun to sit next to on a

Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends

2010-03-19T15:27:55Z

In article <87634sbtt6....@panix.com>, Rajappa Iyer <r...@panix.com>
wrote:
Well, I *do* have that reputation on this group, so I need to uphold it
here.

I don't think that Steve is being hypocritical here. I don't think that
he is advocating that everybody ride winery tour buses, just that if

Re: Hipsters on food stamps

2010-03-19T15:12:54Z

In article <slrnhq5i60.2d5.jul...@adeed.t ele.com>,
That doesn't contradict the point made in the article. I don't think the
article claims that manufacturing has no problems; however, it's also
clear that manufacturing as an economic sector has fewer problems than
many people claim (based purely on output) and the claim is that falling

Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends (was re: Ritz Carlton "It's not liver")

2010-03-19T14:46:07Z

If planned properly, yes planning for bus transit (including
bus parking) is carbon friendly.
Where the U.S. falls down is rational, unified planning of
land use, housing, and transit, leading to our abnormal
high energy burn. That, along with failed health policy
and failed pension/retirement policy, are the three main reasons

Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends (was re: Ritz Carlton "It's not liver")

2010-03-19T14:00:09Z

So now you are telling the business owner to pave over enough land in his
parking lot to park a dozen tour buses.
BTW is that carbon friendly?

Re: Wine tour buses

2010-03-19T13:41:58Z

Funny you should mention Dismalland. A Frenchman was
telling me recently how the whole California wine tasting this
was so Disneyfied. How they have fancy buildings, gift shops and
fancy signage. It's not so much about the wine as about the
marketing.
How many wineriies peddle T-Shirts and baseball caps?

Re: Hipsters on food stamps

2010-03-19T12:54:11Z

They live with their decisions and take care of themselves. The way
millions of people, including myself have done. I've been down and
out. I didn't go get food stamps. I took some real shit jobs for shit
pay. I severely decreased my standard of living for a time. Then I got
back on my feet and moved on.

Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends

2010-03-19T12:29:58Z

I use public transit of various sorts all the time... the
fact that I haven't been on a wine tour bus is meaningless,
yet you are trying to make something out of it.
Is this the best you got?
Sheesh.
Steve

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2010-03-19T11:17:02Z

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Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends

2010-03-19T08:27:01Z

Um... I'm tempted to ask if you're being deliberately obtuse...
In any case, Steve (who I think is a complete nincomcoop, BTW) makes
high sounding statements about carbon footprint and yet admits that he
has never ever used a tour bus for visiting a winery... seems to me
that he wants to recommend that everyone but himself should follow a

Re: Expensive wine, tasteless friends

2010-03-19T07:20:40Z

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:28:05 +0000 (UTC), spop...@speedymail.org
Rewrite: Like water off a non-foie-gras duck's back.

Re: Letting 150 million just go, then moving on

2010-03-19T07:18:47Z

Are you volunteering to be the one who makes the decisions, hands out
death certificates and does the dirty deed?

Re: Wine tour buses

2010-03-19T07:13:52Z

Wineries are not telling the tour busses they don't want the
customers, they just don't want busses clogging their parking lot.
*Legitimate* tour operators will not spring 60 people on any winery
(no matter how big) without a warning anyway. When they coordinate
with the winery - it's a win win. The winery gets exposure and the