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Here an example of censorship from number 1 nation of the free world. 'South Park' aims at censors, hits Bush, Jesus Show gets back at Comedy Central for restrictions Thursday, April 13, 2006; Posted: 6:25 p.m. EDT (22:25 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) -- Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, the creators of "South Park" skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon's most recent episode. http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/13/southpark.muhammad.ap/story.stone.parker.jpg Matt Stone and Trey Parker, prevented from showing Mohammed, decided to push back. Here the link to the story by CNN Summary by Jylland-Posten about the Mohammed Affair

In Europe, maybe except Spain, we don't have the problem. In USA the economy is concentrated in east coast states + California + Texas. If you take away the 2-3 states richest in population the average number of citizens in the rest are approx. 4 mill. Something like the danish population. The states have each 2 senators. So the impact of my worries certainly depends very much of who have the right for initiatives and also the right to block. Supreme Court power is another kind of problem. The right to test legislation to constitution we have here in Germany and some other countries I think but not in Scandinavia. It is a disputed topic regarding European Union. The problem regarding whether power has to follow line of population or something else is to come inside European Union. Here it will not be economy versus land but instead economy versus rural areas. A bit like USA but not with the same kind of disproportinality of land meassured on square-miles. I fear we are heading for the american kind of problems. In that respect the american debate might be of great importance to our future too.

I have never paid much attention to this topic but a little more study might be a way better to understand some of that what looks very strange over here. We mostly see the Senate as legislative body in USA. It is those persons in focus, those we know name of. Therefore my conclusion is it is also those who have the right for initiatives. I looked up House of Representatives and found they had 435 members. 53 from California 32 from Texas 28 from New York I can see here not so overwhelming representation from rural areas as I thought. But I still wonder why it is the name of the senators we know of instead of those from House of Representatives. The only name I remember to have heard from above list is: DeLay, Tom; Texas, 22nd

Are you speaking on behalf of anybody but yourself? I don't think you should use "our". I for one don't want to be included. Fred has said it on a number of occasions: it would be nice if you could add "in my opinion". Roland I have been extraordinaire patient with you Roland - simply because you are a dane. No longer. Our conversations ENDs here.

New suit after Ogust won't be an option by me. No matter the values - we play openers major. If I have own major I bid that with good values and not Ogust. Any bid of minor will be signoff.

From my side of the pond we don't care much whether democrat or republican. We see all of them as just the same. Perhaps the republicans more based in religious traditionalism during last 20 years or so. But else we see no real difference in basic political values. During my walk on beach today I came to think of how would USA look like if the election mandates to Congres would follow the line of population instead of the line of states. I have always wondered how can it be acceptable for big states like California and Texas only to have same numerical representatives as South Dakota etc. I also wonder why majority leaders normally comes from small states. As far as I am able to see it this means USA is no longer lead by persons representing the ecomic centers of the country. Such leads to the conclusion that USA legislative bodies are based in rural economy. From our perspective this is mostly synomym with 'the bible belt'. Such cannot be healthy to any nation.

Your conclusion doesn't follow from your statement. Let me elaborate. There are two common characteristics that I can see between the jobs that generally receive tips in the USA, such as: waiters/waitresses taxi drivers bellhops barbers One is that the service they provide (unlike police officers and bus drivers) is inherently social in nature. The other, and the point I think people have been overlooking is that (unlike dentists and lawyers) you have little or no control over who is going to be your waiter or taxi drivers on any particular occasion (I admit that with barbers this is somewhat untrue, for which I have no explanation). You go to a restaurant because you are interested in the food or perhaps the atmosphere, not because of the waiter who will be serving you. The way you reward a dentist or lawyer for good service is by retaining that person's services the next time, which is impractical with waiters and taxi drivers, so tipping is the only convenient way that their good service can be rewarded. Two closing remarks. The first is that I find tipping to be a more accurate pricing structure. You pay more for something that was good, and less for something that was bad, a concept that I don't think should be objectionable, though obviously to some people it is. The other is that as any economist will tell you, variety is a good thing. Imagine that the entire world forbid tipping. The people in favor of that approach would be happy, the people against it would not. But by some countries forbidding tipping and some allowing it, everyone can live in the situation they prefer most. Variety is inherently Pareto improving (meaning it makes some people better off without leaving any worse off) from the perspective of the consumer, so even if one system could be proven best it would make sense for some countries to use either system. Note that the point about variety also applies to the fact that some jobs receive tips and others don't. If you want a job where you get a small salary and tips to compensate, be a waiter. If you want a job with a larger fixed salary and no tips, be a lawyer. My argument is NOT against incentive salary systems. Those are used in industrial company's but they are on their way out, slowly. In sale, fx. real estate, you have a contract for a basic salary + a percentage. That is certainly not begging. That is value for money. The problem is if you need extra-money for value to be able to handle your private economy. If it is the customer who decides the price - then you need to beg your customer, deep bow or whatever. As I have explained earlier we don't like that. We have abandoned 'value for extra-money' and replaced it by 'extra-value for money'. That principle is fair to all.

The cartoonists are protected by the police. The danish army and all army's in Europe has no role to play in civilian society. We all know the americans are handicapped regarding informations. Your language skills are poor and your media's covers nearly nothing from outside USA. Those problems they suffer in all big countries. Small countries are much dependent of what happens elsewhere. Danish economy is very much dependent of economy in Germany, England, Sweden, Italy, Poland, China. We therefore all need to have some knowledge of their agenda. Regarding cartoons the american record is also very poor. The american media's have chosen to remain silent - rumours say self-censorship. We are very disappointed of the international support of freedom of speech. 2-3 nations have expressed strong support: Norway and Holland and as I remember Hungary too. All else have paid lips to freedom of speech with a but The little word but is what the fundamentalists were heading for. They have demanded the right to decide the limits. Democratic nations let the judicial system decide. Now the public rise in muslim nations has ended we now deal with the problems here. The egyptian ambassador who was the person incouraging and organizing the subversive actions has been removed to South Africa. It is still a bit unclear what will happen to 2 imams, one danish citizen and 1 lived in Denmark 22 years. 1 of them has been dismissed as spokeperson for muslim community in Denmark. It is likely that new legislation to come about imams coming from abroad. This started in the danish right-wing newspaper Jyllands-Posten. They wanted to test freedom of expression. Whether ordinary standards were to be applied everywhere or special rules for religious affiliations. http://www.jp.dk/img/gfx_logo_PageLogo.gif This is a link to Jyllands-Posten summary in english incl. Mohammed affair

Not so funny - at least not for those persons we talk about. The point is - unless you tip for ALL kind of good service - dentist, lawyer, bus-driver, police etc. we no longer talk about service. Then we instead talk a poverty and charity, maybe even promotion of crime.

It is so that human rights conventions are binding prescriptions to all memberstates of the UN. The way those obligations are implemented in USA I don't know. But you have the point - in this thread we mostly concentrate about blaming USA. I know many americans feels embarrassed because USA is always to be blamed. So if you want it that way - USA need to abandon the UN if they want rightfully to get rid of their obligations. I think this topic is implemented in some way in US legislation. Somebody may know where and how. USA has no opt out of human right conventions. Your country must apply to all. I really think you ought to be happy that USA need to stay as a civilized nation - no matter who is in charge of your country.

Here: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 7 The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work which ensure, in particular: (a) Remuneration which provides all workers, as a minimum, with: (i) Fair wages and equal remuneration for work of equal value without distinction of any kind, in particular women being guaranteed conditions of work not inferior to those enjoyed by men, with equal pay for equal work; (ii) A decent living for themselves and their families in accordance with the provisions of the present Covenant; () Safe and healthy working conditions; © Equal opportunity for everyone to be promoted in his employment to an appropriate higher level, subject to no considerations other than those of seniority and competence; (d ) Rest, leisure and reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay, as well as remuneration for public holidays

Those were the days as we noticed an american conscience. Sad to say - his audience has gone to sleep.

With TB, you get to learn any system , no matter how complex, by using it. It has the great advantage that you can test a system without even knowning a single line of it Michael - your ID indicates you know precision. If so then you also knows quite well that above text makes no sense. It can help you to remember, it can help you learn special parts. The system - the theory - the meaning and general construction you cannot grab from files alone. You will soon need to realize, just as I have needed to accept, bridge players are not curious. Simple bridge is sufficient for most players. Routine is what matters not personal challenge. You will soon be disappointed that most players only enjoy their personal interpretations and assume partners interpretations as strange or maybe even wrong. After introduction of FD I think you need to explain the advantages of TB compared to FD.

hmmmm ...... you tend to prove my initial statement correct!

You ought to have an easy decision here Nick. Your personal credibility is at risk.

at the risk of offending someone, i'll just repeat what i said above - during the period of MAD, there were two relatively sane countries involved... i don't view iran (or even some who now have the bomb) in the same light as for what to do, i honestly believe israel will not allow iran to go nuclear unless duct taped to a chair by the usa... if not them, i think the un should prevent a nuclear iran... if they are unwilling or unable, i think the usa should that's my opinion i honestly believe israel will not allow iran to go nuclear You are misinterpretating Israel Jimmy. The will of the Israeli people is peace with their neighbours - and nothing else. They know quite well without the protection coming from USA their state would be unable to survive. They are not willing to risk a peace option for odd adventures from lunatics. Please remember Israel no longer have the same number and sorts of immigrants coming from east. Those were persons with no knowledge of democratic values. Today and in future Israel will need to rely on persons raised in Israel creating an Israeli identity. The religious fundamentalism is likely to reduce in future. Thats why Sharon turned his positions to settlements.

There are several reasons why the system was stopped in Denmark. The most important is education. For waiters it is something like this we have: 50% skilled persons 25% youngsters, students 25% unskilled We think that waiters must be able to serve well, to advise of healthy food, food from different countries, correct wine etc. You may say this is the upper end of service concept. Yes - Denmark is a high wage country unable to compete for anything in low wage area. For taxi drivers not so much education but they have tests and area licenses. The stop had also something to do with fight of black economy. As I mentioned earlier these areas are those where most crime are nourised so I think more countries than Denmark ought to do something serious to get rid of it. Whether a waiter bow a bit deeper to you is of little importance. I have tried to raise the question why those in favour of tipping seems not to be ready to discuss the principles in general within the whole service sector. Service is an important issue everywhere: Police, service helpers, public servants, train-staff, postal service etc. We have no tipping system for those either. Have you?

assuming that's true (and it probably is), who should do this? Nobody of course Jimmy. The man is 80 and has damaged his country now for more than 25 years. Jimmy please try to think of something more constructive than american armed hostility. Your way of thinking seems to reflect the american fundamentalism. Many of your written statements you may re-read and look at as examples of what anti-americanism is made of.

what would you do in iran, claus? Leave it to the international community. We are all to suffer therefore this is also the best and only responsible solution. You will see Iran is not going to be easy as Iraq. Iran is a key muslim society and don't have a political agenda as was the case with Baath party. You will see the very thin governments in countries like Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Idonesia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to fall rather quick. Countries like Egypt, Jordania and Turkey will be much in danger too. Maybe what you dislike most will be the iraqi solidarity to come with Iran. The solidarity the opposite way was impossible in favour of Iraq. You are dealing with tribes not with nations. Several times the world have faced nasty surprises coming from the deep of Asia. I am not sure you are a predicant of doomsday - but Iran will be the moment of truth.

Also the Muslim nations, etc Don't be naive Peter. For sure - nobody will be able to help USA anywhere if they decides to have nothing better to do than starting WWIII in Iran.

I know quite well Jimmy it is very difficult for an american president not to go to war. If american soliders are not needed for armed combats then for what are they needed? NOTHING is the answer - and american presidents knows that, therefore they go to war. USA is the only country I think which haven't received the peace dividend coming from end of the cold war. Why? All knows the answer - then they will need to deal with domestic issues - very uncomfortable of course.

Maybe soon time for all to realize USA will be heading for new troubles: http://www.newyorker.com/images/headers/he_logo.gif THE IRAN PLANS Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Issue of 2006-04-17 Posted 2006-04-10

When I voted there were only one option: yesnoyes Those 4 which were there as I voted have now all been converted to YES. So the result of the poll is now a bit biased. Now I would vote NO

A bit help here to those asking for documentation of human right abuses committed by others than USA. http://www.vg.no/bilder/edrum/1144481386290_264.jpg This is about revealings of norwegians forcing german surrenders to clear mines in 1945. This a a link to Verdens Gang, the biggest norwegian newspaper. Norwegian language only