[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Richard Maher]

On 3/4/2015 8:09 AM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>
> Really? glass fiber is very cheap, and has an enormous capacity.

Really? And it jumps into the ground by itself? I'm guessing Wireless is 
cheaper and a still emerging technology.

> The
> telephone cables are very old and need to be replaced anyway.

More bollocks!

>
>>
>> Why don't you demand fast trains to any village with more than 1 person.
>
> Good that you mention trains. Our railway system is the most densely
> operated railway system in the world. They are going to overhaul our
> local railway station for some 275 million Euro if I'm not mistaken. A
> few new railways are under construction, but for small villages we rely
> on small buses. You just have to make a phone call, and a small bus will
> come.

I bet that 275 million is spent mainly on your council edict that there 
must be a separate toilet cubical for LGBI and T. With interconnecting 
doors obviously.
>
>> (Germans always laughed at us when we called the Inter-City Express
>> trains ICE trains even though that was the English acronym. On second
>> thoughts an Ice-Cream Train is a bit funny :-)
>>
>> You choose to ignore the opportunity-cost to health, welfare, and
>> education etc. You sir are like a drunken Greek full of flash trains and
>> Olympics and retiring at 50 on 100% pension and you never finish the top
>> storey of your house 'cos then you'd have to pay local tax.
>
> The Netherlands have about 18 million inhabitants, that is about twice
> as much as the city of New York. Never the less the pension fund
> reserves of The Netherlands amount to €10,500 billion. That is the third
> largest reserve, after the US and Japan. The national debt of Greece is
> less than €500 billion.

Jokes aside I have always been envious of how the Netherlands sensibly 
put aside the profits from Royal Dutch Shell! Compare that to Perth 
where we just come out of the biggest resources boom in history 
(primarily iron ore) and we have nothing to show for it except a State 
Govt in debt so much that we lost our AAA rating :-(
>
>>
>> But now you know the Germans will do anything but default so screw 'em
>> for evry cent they've got! The Irish, Portuguese, Italians and Spanish
>> are all lining up behind you with their pants down.
>
> The Irish and the Spanish governments had their finances in order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Apple, Google, HP and their ilk set up HQ in Eire and loan millions in 
unnecessary cash to their Oz subsidiaries at exorbitant rates of 
interest. 90% of all profit in OZ is transferred as servicing the not 
for business loan as well as paying royalties after deducting R&D 
allowances in Australia. Sometimes our taxman ends up giving them a 
return :-(


> In
> both countries stupid building companies and banks created so much debt
> that the government had to bail out the banks, otherwise the banks and
> with them the total economy would have been gone down the drain.

Euro countries are ham-strung by not being able to hike interest rates 
to prevent asset bubbles. Unlike here and the US where asset bubbles are 
positively encourage nay engineered :-(

BTW As you are a bit of a history buff and Dutch, I recommend looking up 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia_(ship)

But you do own a bloody caravan don't you?