More good news

note: a number of islands have been bought up by 'rich Americans' in the last few years...some completely stripped of forestry and signs erected warning locals to stay away.

It's Hard-Water season Chuck. It happens every year around this time. Sorry to belabor the obvious, but someone had to say it. :o) Mark E. Williams

*Have a great Christmas and a spectacular New Year!*

How truly amazing that you and the other combatants in this thing would post your nasty, snide, and inflammatory comments in a public forum and then get all pissy when somebody keeps track of who said what.

Tedium piled upon tedium piled upon tedium.

Eisboch

Which means one of two things. Either a lot of the men here posting are really women (75% of afflicted people are women) or you are not getting out and about - getting enough wide spectrum light.

So here's what you folks should do.

Build a square box big enough to stick your head in as wide as your shoulders and about a foot tall.

Install florescent lights inside the box at the top - two will do - about 10k lux.

Place on head and turn the lights on. 30 minutes is usually about right.

That should solve everything. :>)

Or turn you into a ginger bred man. :>)

*Have a great Christmas and a spectacular New Year!*

Inflammatory remarks and all trolls should be posted in rec.bAITs.

For a guy who only scored one point, before I gave up keeping score, you sure got your hackles up in a hurry.

Why wouldn't it be fairly obvious that remarks posted to a public forum will be noticed by somebody? So, the question is this: Is it the greater offender who comments on the quality and content of the remark, or the greater offender who posts the remarks to begin with?

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From there you can link to his other websites where he covers subjects from astrology to mathematics. He offers free downloads of some interesting programs he has written as well.

I spent a couple of hours last night on his sites and found them to be toughly enjoyable.

Eisboch

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/

Eisboch

I'll say the same thing to you that I told my good friend JohnH.

It's one and the same. Somebody makes a facile and silly comment and you feel you have to add to it?

School yard rules - he did so why can't I?

It's one thing to post something like you did as a funny ha-ha - I've done it in the past and it can be amusing.

You on the other hand took it one extra step too far and it stopped being funny ha-ha and took on the same tone as the original posts. There are such things as funny once, no funny twice.

In that scenario, who is the greater offender - the original poster or the one who perpetuates it?

I'd say you are just as much an offender as anybody who participated in that.

First insult hurled by JohnH; referring to a group of Canadians as "dumb asses".

First press for an argument, JohnH demanding a clarification that it was indeed "Americans" who bought up the islands.

First catty remark, Don White.

Second challenge for an argument, and on a personal level, Reggie Smithers.

So far:

Insults, John H 1, others 0 Challenge for arrument, JohnH 1, Reggie 1, others 0 Catty remark, Don White 1, others 0

Second in your face challenge to provoke an argument, Reggie Smithers

First political reference, Don White

Two points to Reggie. One for perpetuating an argument and another political point for comparing Canada to Castro's Cuba

One point to Don White, for a third party personal remark.

One point to Don White for a sarcastic personal insult

One point to Eisboch for extending the scope of the political argument

Subtotal so far;

Personal remarks, Don White 1, others 0 Insults, JohnH 1, Don White 1, others 0 Invitations for argument, JohnH 1, Reggie 3, others 0 Catty remarks, Don White 1, others 0 Political remarks, Don White 1, Reggie 1, Eisboch 1

Two points Basskisser. One for an insulting remark and a second for a political reference to the RNC.

Subtotals so far:

Personal remarks: Don White, P Fritz, Thunder (one each) Insults: John H, Don White, Basskisser (one each) Argumentative challenges: JohnH 1, Reggie Smithers 3 Catty remarks: Don White, 1 Political Statements: JohnH 1, Don White 1, Eisboch 1, Fritz 1, Basskisser 1

http://www.citizenjoe.org/node/132

Da -ta-ta- da ......

Chuck Gould .... with over 15 sarcastic comments on thread that otherwise did not involve him.

Congratulations, Chuck.

Eisboch

I feel left out.

WWWAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I'll have to try harder.

*Have a great Christmas and a spectacular New Year!*

Points to DW... :>)

I've never had a satisfactory answer to that - ever - from a developer.

From my perspective, developers need to take into account the users of the land, not just the owners.

Britain also has a similar law and it's a good one.

Meaning that they are entertainment in and of themselves. :>)

Hmmmm - some to think of it, if I did buy Canada, I'd keep Quebec and get rid of the rest of it - well, except for the oil fields. :>)

1, that halted a lot of further development because they didn't want the island to turn into another Honolulu.

2. it was good for Marriott, because the island council themselves warded off a lot of other competetion that would want to build there to out do Marriott.

So, I would suppose that the council not only did the island a favor, but also helped Marriott as well.

win-win situation??

The bottom line is that *Canadians* sold the property! Cast your aspersions on them first. -- John H

*Have a great Christmas and a spectacular New Year!*

"Not just because they are rich...it's the 'dog with a bone' attitude. Anyone who lives in a popular coastal area would know what I'm talking about. Development has been fairly slow coming to these areas and the locals have had use of the islands for generations. Someone buys up the property, uses it for a few weeks each summer and then guards it like a national treasure the rest of the year. No one allowed on or near the islands. Some even try to evict boaters anchoring in the coves... although they only own property above the high water mark. "

"In terms of official government foreign assistance, “the U.S. gives the most in absolute amounts, more than twice what the second ranked donor, Japan, gives,” said Adelman during a global Internet chat July 27."

"But this number does not include substantial private foreign assistance, such as aid that comes from private donations, charities, religious associations and other nonprofit groups."

“Private international giving by Americans is over three and one-half times that of U.S. government foreign assistance,” Adelman told participants in the Internet chat. “When you take into account this U.S. private giving, our foreign assistance far exceeds other countries by any measure.”

http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2005/Jul/27-997226.html

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Where does Canada rank?

Eisboch

About 9 years ago we had a Swedish au-pair.

About 8 years ago we had another German au-pair.

More fuel for their ???.

Eisboch

I'm still happy over the fact that our county commissioners and the local voters stopped Wal-Mart dead in its tracks with an intention to build some sort of "superstore" down here. The county continues to raise its "impact" fee to discourage tract builders. But we do encourage locally owned small businesses in existing commercial areas. Waterfront development is allowed but the controls are pretty strict. The local battle cry is, "Let's not become another Fairfax County." Fairfax County is a densely populated county in Northern Virginia that used to be a pleasant place to live. Not anymore. It's overdeveloped, with clogged roads, overcrowded schools, declining infrastructure, million dollar houses on an eighth of an acre lots, the whole catastrophe.

Eisboch

You have a very nice home today, do you allow people to picnic in your backyard, or park their car on your front yard?

http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ga2.html

http://ccns.chebucto.org/Right_to_Roam.pdf

Since you have given everyone ready access to your home and gardens, why don't you just deed your home over the state?

About three months after our au-pair returned to France she wrote and told us that the French, in France, were a bit on the rude side. Thirteen months in the US with friendly people spoiled her.