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"SB" == Snowbird writes:

SB I once listened to Dave Platt, CEO of Hewlett-Packard
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"Snowbird" wrote in message
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I once listened to Dave Platt, CEO of Hewlett-Packard when they still made
the world's best oscilloscopes.

His message was about change. "Normally, change happens only when the pain
of continuing exceeds the pain of making the change. The leaders will be
those who dare to change sooner".

Think of the day when avgas will cost $10 a gallon as it already does in
Europe, and you still want to continue flying. The Europeans already prove
it's doable, so better start preparing now.

Yes, but in Europe, the people are servants, not masters. They're used to
taking it up the wazoo.
--
Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY

"Matt W. Barrow" wrote
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Yes, but in Europe, the people are servants, not masters. They're used to
taking it up the wazoo.
--
Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY


All hail the American masters.
Servant George, from Europe.

On Dec 29, 10:11*am, "gpaleo" wrote:

All hail the American masters.
Servant George, from Europe.

Heh. Oh no no, we're far too weak for that now.

It's ya'lls own doing: first the kings went away, replaced by
dictators, then the dictators went away, replaced by bureaucrats.

All hail the EU Bureaucrats!

Pretty soon they'll have a law about the correct way to tie your shoes
(if shoes continue to be allowed, since their manufacture is
environmentally unsound).

On Dec 29, 5:37 am, "Snowbird" wrote:
I once listened to Dave Platt, CEO of Hewlett-Packard when they still made
the world's best oscilloscopes.

His message was about change. "Normally, change happens only when the pain
of continuing exceeds the pain of making the change. The leaders will be
those who dare to change sooner".

Think of the day when avgas will cost $10 a gallon as it already does in
Europe, and you still want to continue flying. The Europeans already prove
it's doable, so better start preparing now.

It might be doable for them, but it's doable for far fewer
people than it is here. We get Europeans coming to Canada to learn to
fly because it costs about a third as much as in Europe.

Dan

Snowbird wrote:
I once listened to Dave Platt, CEO of Hewlett-Packard when they still made
the world's best oscilloscopes.

IMHO HP never made the best oscilloscopes and
my opinion is shared by many. They certainly
did make the best spectrum, network and logic
analyzers, signal generators and voltmeters.

Their current line of digital scopes isn't
bad, but their analog scopes were never even
in the same league as Tek. There was never a
substitute for a Tek 454 or later, a 465.
The 485 was agueably the best portable scope
ever made anywhere by anyone.

His message was about change. "Normally, change happens only when the pain
of continuing exceeds the pain of making the change. The leaders will be
those who dare to change sooner".

Think of the day when avgas will cost $10 a gallon as it already does in
Europe, and you still want to continue flying. The Europeans already prove
it's doable, so better start preparing now.

Already did. I fly behind a Rotax 912. Burns
2.5 gallons/hr training and 5 gallons/hr cruising.
And that's premium mogas.

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John Smith wrote:

In article
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wrote:

It's ya'lls own doing: first the kings went away, replaced by
dictators, then the dictators went away, replaced by bureaucrats.

Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Are you sure about Y'all's being possessive? I would have thought Y'alls
would be the possissive (by analogy to his, its, etc), with Y'all's being a
contraction for "Y'all is" (like he's and it's).

One might reasonably ask why Y'all wouldn't take the second person singular
("are"), but I assume that if Youse takes is, then Y'all should also take
is.

Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Well, crap.

It's ya'lls own doing: first the kings went away, replaced by
dictators, then the dictators went away, replaced by bureaucrats.

Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Are you sure about Y'all's being possessive? *I would have thought Y'alls
would be the possissive (by analogy to his, its, etc), with Y'all's being a
contraction for "Y'all is" (like he's and it's).

One might reasonably ask why Y'all wouldn't take the second person singular
("are"), but I assume that if Youse takes is, then Y'all should also take
is.

I meant it this way: "It's y'all's fault."

That's possessive, idn it?

In article
,
wrote:

It's ya'lls own doing: first the kings went away, replaced by
dictators, then the dictators went away, replaced by bureaucrats.

Learn proper English.
Y'all is singular
All y'all is plural
Y'all's is possessive

Are you sure about Y'all's being possessive? *I would have thought Y'alls
would be the possissive (by analogy to his, its, etc), with Y'all's being a
contraction for "Y'all is" (like he's and it's).

One might reasonably ask why Y'all wouldn't take the second person singular
("are"), but I assume that if Youse takes is, then Y'all should also take
is.

I meant it this way: "It's y'all's fault."

That's possessive, idn it?

I believe what you are trying to say is, "The fault belongs to y'all",
which is indeed possessive. But, my claim is that it should be written,
"It's y'alls fault". Just like you would write, "It's his fault".