Replies to post #366170 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[tantal]

Zeev, point taken. I knew what you meant, just having fun!

So regarding service vs. manufacturing, I wonder what you think of the falling dollar as it affects our manufacturing base? How low do you think the dollar would have to go for us to begin to eliminate our competetive disadvantage in manufacturing labor costs? My guess is that value would be so low that there would be a lot of economic pain all over the world first, but am interested in your thoughts.

How do you think small businesses are fairing? There is a lot of potential for job growth there.

[PENNYPRINCE 1]

Am I corrcet that you expect the Nassacre to begin in April?

[choad]

I am frequently ( not as much anymore) PM'd by a fellow threadster trying to instill a bit of correct grammar and punctuation into my babbles. Whether they have become less frequent because he has decided I am beyond redemption or that he thinks I have advanced to the front of the class, I know not. However, I am sure that your english is quite adequate and all get the drift....how could anyone misinterpret DEFINITELY DEFENESTRATED out the window! LOL

[simple]

What is Defenestration?
The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.

One entry found for defenestration.


Main Entry: de·fen·es·tra·tion
Pronunciation: (")dE-"fe-n&-'strA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: de- + Latin fenestra window
: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window
- de·fen·es·trate /(")dE-'fe-n&-"strAt/ transitive verb

[simple]

The Real-Time Encyclopedia describes defenestration is "the traditional Czechoslovakian method of assassinating prime ministers."

Petra Hanáková tells us:

This situation culminated in 1419 with the First Defenestration of Prague, in which Hussites threw 7 members of the Czech Town Council out of Prague's New Town Hall window--and to their deaths on the points of Hussite-wielded pikes below. To make the situation more interesting, King Wenceslas IV had an apoplectic fit and died of a heart attack upon learning of the defenestration.

Radio Prague adds:

They began their rebellion in grand Czech style, with the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618. In this second defenestration, two vice-regents of the Austrian monarch and some governors of the Czech lands were thrown out of a tower window at Prague Castle. They were not killed, however, as they fell onto a pile of garbage (mostly straw) which had accumulated in the castle moat.
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http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/defenestrate/meaning.html

[simple]

The Unix Guide to Defenestration

"Defenestration" refers to the act of throwing out through, or of being thrown out of, windows.

In this case it is used to describe a process I think of as data center defenestration in which people come to understand the technical background, costs, organizational structures, and behavioral imperatives that lead to institutionalized systems failure and then act on that knowledge to throw out the stuff that doesn't work and bring in systems and processes that do.

http://www.winface.com/def1.html

The Unix Guide to Defenestration.

http://www.winface.com/index.html

[goodluck]

as far as consumption growth is concerned, the tax cut imposed by recent energy hikes...
Surely energy hikes don't imply "tax cuts." This is a pretty big tax increase (effectively speaking, as far as consumption is concerned), last time I checked, prices around here were well above $2/gallon.