will the US military power dominate the world

In article ,
"Franck" wrote:

yes, we have airconditioning...

yes when electricity facilities works

That would be much funnier if England and Italy hadn't had comparable
blackouts in the last few months...

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In article ,
"Franck" wrote:

An example

I pay 30$/month for ALL medical assitance (hospital, medecin, drug, glasses,
teeth......). a big party is paid directly bythe french state, the rest by
my medical insurance

You pay a *lot* more than $30 per month.

You see, when they take out that extra 20% or so of your income each
year in taxes, *that's* what pays for that insurance.

So when you say "$30 per month," you mean "$30 per month on top of the
several thousand per year they already take out."

And $6000 per year can pay for some *good* insurance for most folks in
the US... and we get to pick the insurance carrier, so we can choose to
have a less-expensive plan with a moderate deductible, or a very
expensive plan with no deductible at all.

you could pay more or less depends of your insurance or the company where
you work. but this a good example.

Can you choose to not pay the government the taxes they take away from
you to pay for everyone's health care?

Thought not...

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In article ,
Greg Hennessy wrote:

Here in the UK in 1987 the top rate of tax was lowered from 60 to 40%. The
overall tax take significantly increased as a consequence. Making a lie of
all the socialist drivel about it 'hurting the poor'.

....and now some of the British government folks are looking at ways to
get that money back. Like removing the homeowner's exemption for the
capital gains tax - a nasty business for most people.

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In article ,
says...
what happened in France ?
15K dead from heat?

right, I'm surprise by this fact


You had heard of it then ?



what happen in USA, more than 12K dead, shot in the street every year. it
seems life is less dangerous in Irak

It is dangerous being a drug dealer


how many people die in USA each year without any medical assistance ?

not 15,000.



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In the mid-1980s, The Boeing Company invested in three-dimensional
CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) technology
for strategic reasons. By the end of that decade, a single strategy for
applying this capability emerged after numerous pilot programs were
conducted.

The pilot programs clearly demonstrated the benefits of modeling
airplane parts as three-dimensional solids in the CATIA (computer-aided
three-dimensional interactive application) system. Developed by Dassault
Systemes of France and marketed by IBM in the United States, CATIA,
along with several Boeing-created applications - allowed Boeing
engineers to simulate the geometry of an airplane design on the computer
without the costly and time-consuming investment of using physical mock-ups.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777...computing.html




Peter Stickney wrote:

In article ,
"Franck" writes:

........ are made by french soft : catia (from dassault systems)

read made using a french CAD software : catia (from dassault systems)


Amusing. When I was busy developing Information Interchange protocols
between CAD systems and documentation systems, (Mid '80s) CATIA was
Boeing's baby, and a troublesome one at that. If they conned
Dassault into buying it, it would have to rank as the Comic Deal of
the century.

"Ron" wrote in message
...
Fuel price=TAXES= social assistance=better standard of life

Not from where I am sitting.

The productive all across europe get ripped off to buy votes from the
idle
and indolent, leaving them with little for their one well being.

One cannot have a 'better standard of life' when the state is
confiscating
3/4s of ones lifetime earnings via direct and indirect taxation.

The only people to have a 'better standard of life' are those who spend
their entire existence suckling at the public teat.


greg

It will be interesting over the next 10 years to see how Western Europe
handles
it, as their population ages even more, with much less younger people to
help
pay into the system, in proportion to those who are retired and recieving
the
benefits of such a social program.

This last summer while hiking through the Rocky Mountains I passed
many pairs of college students. One pair, to judge by accents and
appearances was a German and an Indian (or Pakistani, at least some
where from the neck of the woods); the portion of the conversation
I caught from this pair was how in the not to distant future every working
German was going to have his very own retiree to support via taxes.

I don't speak about the last US black out but i speak about lot of small
blackout in California last years
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
m...
In article ,
"Franck" wrote:

yes, we have airconditioning...

yes when electricity facilities works

That would be much funnier if England and Italy hadn't had comparable
blackouts in the last few months...


England hasnt, there was a small scale blackout that affected
a section of London when a transformer blew.
The power went off at 18.26 BST and was restored at 19.00
the biggest problem was the disruption of power to the underground
and commuter rail systems at rush hour.

Keith

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:46:28 -0500, Alan Minyard
wrote:


I have a *very* average Ford Taurus station-wagon, and it has a 3
Liter engine. Quite safe and comfortable.

I know of one european country where the annual tax (I believe you call it
car tags in your neck of the woods) on a car with a 3 Litre engine would be
round 1500 USD.





greg


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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:09:09 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
Greg Hennessy wrote:

Here in the UK in 1987 the top rate of tax was lowered from 60 to 40%. The
overall tax take significantly increased as a consequence. Making a lie of
all the socialist drivel about it 'hurting the poor'.

...and now some of the British government folks are looking at ways to
get that money back. Like removing the homeowner's exemption for the
capital gains tax - a nasty business for most people.

Tell me about it, its been 'officially' denied of course, but that kite
didnt start flight on its own.


greg

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