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dave wrote:
As I said in another thread. 2 13 yo kids camping out of a sailing dinghy on the shores of a lake and shooting bunnies for the hols would probably get dad charged with neglect these days. I so miss my dad. Where is the lake that you could do that this day? I once had opposition from parents against their 15 year old walking 500 metres to the local shops. |
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dave wrote:
Well the statistics are fudgy. Especially since they had very little idea of the population. Ship loads of people arriving (and leaving) all the time and no one keeping tally. |
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alison_b wrote:
I also grew up in a time and place where heading off with my friends camping wasn't a worry - but these days I hear the local police enforce restrictions about under-aged kids driving the paddock ute on the road... Especially with guns visible {:-). |
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Random Data wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:48:12 +0000, Zebee Johnstone wrote: I grew vegies for a while, but various things led to the silverbeet being neglected. I didn't realise they could grow 8 foot tall! I'd offer to help, but the chainsaw's too expensive to run at $1.50/l 36" bushsaw beats a chain saw most days {:-) (unless it is real railway sleepers). |
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Stuart Lamble wrote:
Yes, *now* they are. That's not to say that they have to be that way, and if the cost of transport keeps going the way it has been, they would (eventually) become the major producer. Large-scale centralised production is not a long-term viable strategy. Depends on where you are growing them. You forget that "close production" has to compete with city prices for land". In truth, the cost of production is actually a minor part of a lot of foodstuffs because of the economies of scale. The major problem really has been (for at least 30 years) having someone who will buy them. The real problem with massive production is disasters, as happened with bananas being too centralised. |
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Terryc wrote: Travis wrote: The subject of tarrifs etc is another perpetual "debate" which economists figured out long ago, but every generation screws up anew. Lol, rest of philosophical rant clipped. You obviously know nothing about the economics of modern computer chip production, because if you did, you would understand why everything you wrote is just a blind drivel from an indoctrinated fool. Thankyou for this erudite explanation of the flaws in economic theory, but for the rest of us perhaps you could give a little more detail. How does modern computer chip production disprove the basic principles of economics? Travis |
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In aus.bicycle on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:30:29 +1000
Terryc wrote: wrote: I think you would be hard pressed to find a 20 storey apartment block from the 1850s. When did they start using concrete in tall building construction? I believe the practical/economic height was limited by the compression strength of bricks. Didn't start building tall things till the early 1900s, perhaps even 1920s? The big buildings in the US date from around then. That's when they discovered things like the air movement - a tall building has a fair old convection effect, hence rotating doors. I suspect the invention of the elevator had something to do with it too, but that's older than very tall buildings. Zebee |
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Random Data Wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:28:37 -0700, brucef wrote: Education is a state responsibility. Funding for education is Federal, administration is State. So basically both ends blame each other, and the schools get screwed. -- Dave Hughes | Brooker's Law: "The wackier the project, the easier it is to fund."WRONG!!! Vast majority of school education funds are STATE. Fed gov tops up - incresingly putting funds in as a way of trying to wrestle control... -- scotty72 |
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Travis wrote:
Terryc wrote: Travis wrote: The subject of tarrifs etc is another perpetual "debate" which economists figured out long ago, but every generation screws up anew. Lol, rest of philosophical rant clipped. You obviously know nothing about the economics of modern computer chip production, because if you did, you would understand why everything you wrote is just a blind drivel from an indoctrinated fool. Thankyou for this erudite explanation of the flaws in economic theory, but for the rest of us perhaps you could give a little more detail. How does modern computer chip production disprove the basic principles of economics? Your might like to find that out yourself. Then you will appreciate the information. Easy to find. Just broaden your reading. Most advertising also disproves your "basic principles of economics" As I said, economics is just a philosophy. It has no practical exampes of ever working. Everytime someone trots a suppssed example of successfull appicaltion of the principles of economic theory, someone else points out political or other conditions/forces that were equally as responsible. Travis |
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