[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dirk Munk skrev den 2015-03-04 01:09:
> Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 3/3/2015 9:42 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>>> I've got news for you.
>>> If you want a good road, or good public transport for your kids to go to
>>> school, you can't set it up for your self. But paying for it
>>> collectively by taxes does work.
>>
>> You don't want "good". You demand/expect gold-plated.
>
> Really? glass fiber is very cheap, and has an enormous capacity. The
> telephone cables are very old and need to be replaced anyway.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
>> (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,

Netherlands: 406 inhabitants/square kilometer
USA: 32 inhabitants/square kilometer
Sweden: 21 inhabitants/square kilometer

The northen part (59% of the area) has an average
of *4* inhabitants/square kilometer. Or 12% of the
total population.

This of course has an influence on cost for supplying
services to people, such as internet connections


Jan-Erik.



> 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.
>
>>
>> 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. 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. In fact banks all over
> Europe and the US created the crises we are recovering from now. A Dutch
> journalist (a very good one) lived and worked in the city of London a
> couple of years, and he just published a book about the banks. Top managers
> in these huge banks still haven't a clue about the risks they are taking,
> and they don't understand the financial products they are selling. The next
> banking crises is on the horizon, these idiots haven't learned anything.
>
> It was an American bank that helped the Greek government to hide its true
> debt when the Greeks wanted to join the Euro.
>
>>
>> Don't get me going on the Irish (I am mostly one) they have a tax haven
>> for Google and Apple etc so they loan their Oz subsidiaries billions for
>> nothing and repatriate our profits back to the "Celtic Tiger" :-(
>>
>> Anyway the most important thing is that YOUR govt pays you enough so you
>> can stay in a real hotel when you go on holidays and stop clogging up
>> (see what I did there?) the Deutsch autobahns with your bloody caravans!
>> How much tax did you pay Hitler for their roads eh?
>
> How much did Hitler steal from The Netherlands? How much do you think we
> invest in railways and highways so that the German industry can transport
> goods to and from the harbor of Rotterdam? In fact the Dutch and German
> economies are so intertwined that we are almost a German state.
>
>> Take your "NL"
>> sticker and piss-off back to window-shopping Amsterdam and other village
>> curiosities that you're so eager to preserve.
>>
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