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From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:53 PM
Subject: [MBZ] OT: Philosophy
A quote my wife sent me:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive
A quote my wife sent me:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather
to skid in sideways---Chardonnay in one hand, chocolate in the other,
body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO,
I think I was like that last Saturday night.
--R
Jim Cathey wrote:
A quote my wife sent me:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather
to skid in sideways---Chardonnay in one hand, chocolate in the
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From: Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Philosophy
I do see a problem if peoples goal is to be rich
LarryT wrote:
No need to continue - I'm sure ya'll get the idea - there's a huge amount of
experiences that are important to the voters that the politicians have no
concept of.
I remember when my parents signed their first gov't farming subsity contract.
A year or so later, the USDA rep got
Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think that Oz is being used a test case to see if they can get
away with it. It is being sold as being more secure for buyers and
sellers. Of course it is also more profitable to the ebay/paypal
monopoly.
So are they taking away the option to
You can check out the details at www.ebay.com.au but it looks pretty
bad, with a 'you must have this and you can't do this attitude'.
Perhaps if nobody listed anything or bought anything for a week as a
sign of protest, they would reconsider their bully boy tactics.
Hendrik
Allan Streib wrote:
So what are the on-line auction choices besides eBay now?
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can check out the details at www.ebay.com.au but it looks pretty
bad, with a 'you must have this and you can't do this attitude'.
Perhaps if nobody listed
OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what are the on-line auction choices besides eBay now?
Look for Google to jump in here if they haven't already.
Allan
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So I guess ebay Australia are criminals because as far as i can see they
have stabbed their members in the back by forcing them to use ebay owned
paypal or COD.
There is a point where self motivation turns into greed because the law
allows them to.
Do you really think big business cares about
There is a point where self motivation turns into greed because the law
allows them to.
This is where the lack of competition hurts you. You need to
be able to vote with your feet. If business drops off to a
competitor that isn't so greedy, they get the message. Buy
less (or none) with eBay,
I'm assuming that eBay USA would find itself in trouble for anticompetitive
behavior if they did that, but I may be expecting too much. Several of the
states' attorney generals had sued Paypal for running an illegal unregulated
bank, but all those snakes crawled back under their rocks after eBay
I think that Oz is being used a test case to see if they can get away
with it. It is being sold as being more secure for buyers and sellers.
Of course it is also more profitable to the ebay/paypal monopoly.
There are moves underway for the competition watchdog to have a look at
this but after
The problem I see with true socialism is that it goes against
human nature, whilst capitalism works well with human nature.
That has always been its [socialism/communism] biggest sin,
that it ignores human nature. That experiment never lasts
long. Think they pretend to pay me, and I pretend
I do see a problem if peoples goal is to be rich and that is it.
I'd rather be poor in paradise than rich in hell and that is the way I
see things going in a pure capitalist society. Sure we all have coin on
the hip but we lock up our castles, alarm our cars and worry like hell
if we have
I do see a problem if peoples goal is to be rich and that is it.
A pretty poor class of people, if that is indeed the case.
But they'll get what they deserve if so. I do not measure
'wealth' entirely by the almighty dollar. For example, having
some old wrecked cars in the woods is wealth to
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