Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-11 Thread Maccy
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Russell Jones wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Maccy wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Russell Jones wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Maccy wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the dashboard. You'd hope to God that nobody

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-07 Thread Russell Jones
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Maccy wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the dashboard. You'd hope to God that nobody ever ran in the back of

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 10:08 -, Fergus Wilde wrote: The rate of boozing does seem to be higher in the Netherlands. It's higher even than in the UK, though it did start out a lot lower. Booze is very much cheaper in Spain and Italy than

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Howorth
Carlos E. R. wrote: Can it be a filtering mechanism for the human species? Only the apt and sober survive? Better they die young than when a family depends on them? What a thought :( Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Maccy
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the dashboard. You'd hope to God that nobody ever ran in the back of you Mark -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 10:03 -, Fergus Wilde wrote: ... You cannot legislate for good intent. No... laws are later twisted into things the legislators never thought would happen when they wrote the thing. - -- Cheers,

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 16:38, Russell Jones wrote: Hans Witvliet wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread jdd
Neil wrote: It is becoming a kind of fashion to drink till you drop at low ages (it's called something like comatosedrinking). as a matter of fact, whatever the adults try to do, many youngs (mostly boys) have a suicide attitude at a time or an other. They act like if they tryed to

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:10, Dave Howorth wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: Can it be a filtering mechanism for the human species? Only the apt and sober survive? Better they die young than when a family depends on them? What a thought :( Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 16:11, Hans Witvliet wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Maccy wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the dashboard. You'd hope to God that nobody ever ran in the back of you Well, all that

[opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread James Hatridge
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 01:57, Carlos E. R. wrote: Here (Spain) the... how do you say? the age to be of age? Ok, they are adults at 18, for all things: driving, drinking, voting, owning property, marrying, going to prisons (as inmates)... I believe there are some exceptions, like heavy

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Neil
Hi I live in the Netherlands, and we can drink beer and buy weed at 16. We have to wait to 18 to drive though. I would say this is a good sequence. The drinking till you drop has been tried before you are allowed to drive a car, and everyone knows where their limits are by then. Most do not care

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 16:45 +0100, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, and we can drink beer and buy weed at 16. We have to wait to 18 to drive though. I would say this is a good sequence. The drinking till you drop has been tried before you are allowed to drive a car, and everyone

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. Don't. If you

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Jos van Kan
Randall R Schulz schreef: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. A few years later they decided to lay off their whole

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Russell Jones
Hans Witvliet wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:30, Jos van Kan wrote: Randall R Schulz schreef: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late