On 03/01/12 13:15, Lüko Willms wrote:

But people like you do not want to be bothered by facts. So you start
deviating from the topic, lying and slandering and insulting.

So when you accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being nostalgic for
empire[1], supporting Hitler and so on, in what sense is that sticking
to the facts? In what sense is that not deviating, lying, libelling[2]
and insulting?

You see, Lüko, calling each other "fascist" at the drop of a hat is SOP
in hard left circles, but it's just childish to the rest of us. You
might as well call you opponents big stinky poo bottoms for all the
credibility it gets you.

Ian

[1] Except the Soviet Empire, of course, which it seems needs no apology
[2] Written defamation, including usenet posting, is libel, not slander.

On 04/01/12 18:04, Ross wrote:
It only makes you appear to be unwilling to accept that anything you
disagree with could possibly be true.

And still Lüko declines to state his position on the Holocaust.

Ian

On 03/01/12 13:14, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 03.01.2012 10:47, schrieb The Real Doctor:
Says the man who has repeatedly claimed that I am a Hitler apologist.

if you were German, you would be.

Nonsense.

you show again that you are a shamless liar and slanderer.

That would carry a little more weight if the previous part of your
posting had not been both a lie and defamatory.

Ian

On 03/01/12 13:15, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 03.01.2012 01:46, schrieb The Real Doctor:
That is why I am equally happy to condemn British imperialism in India,
French imperialism in Indo-china, Soviet imperialism in central Europe
and Spanish/Argentinian imperialism in the South Atlantic.

tongue in cheek.

Sincerely.

What about the Holocaust, Lüko? Did it happen? Did it matter?

Ian

On 04/01/12 10:28, Lüko Willms wrote:
There are not price drops any more, even though the competition got
stiffer, because there is no more such a leap in technology.

I renewed my domestic phone contract[1] last year. As part of the deal,
I could get unlimited calls to other countries in the EU for three
pounds per month. That's a heck of a drop.

Ian

[1] With a cooperative.

On 04/01/12 10:02, Lüko Willms wrote:
What do you tell somebody who claims, stamping his feet in the ground,
that the earth is flat and that the sun rotates around the earth?

How can the sun rotate around the earth if the earth is flat?

Ian

On 04/01/12 12:00, Lüko Willms wrote:
Sure, but not about his religious beliefs, which is something I do
normally not care about, being a private affair.

He funds anti-gay campaigns in Scotland.

Ian

On 04/01/2012 09:53, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 03.01.2012 22:32, schrieb Arthur Figgis:
DB had "working" narrow-gauge steam in the former east until the lines
were sold off in the mid-2000s - perhaps a bit of a grey area how "real"
it was, but they were regular timetabled services with were normal
passengers as well as anoraks.

There are still some (narrow gauge) lines with regular steam traction,
but those lines are not owned by DB.

Mostly tourist lines, like the one on the Brocken, or at the Baltic sea
cost.

The one on the outskirts of Dresden was less touristy when I did it at
the tail end of DB days (2003, I think).


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 04/01/2012 10:28, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 03.01.2012 23:25, schrieb Charles Ellson:
Anyway, phone services in
the UK are far, far better and far, far cheaper than when the Post
Office had a monopoly.

Much of that is down to changes in the technology; e.g. international
telephone calls are not cheaper due to a change in ownership.

I dare say that _all_ of the price drops was due to a change in
technology (computerization of switches, optical fibers, better channel
division).

= attacks on the jobs of the girls who plug the connections in to put
calls through.


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 03/01/12 13:26, Lüko Willms wrote:

At last, you admit that you do not have a clue about what we are talking
about

I rarely have any idea what you are talking about, that's true.

I do not judge about what people _should_ or should not be happy with.
YOU do, as does Herr Schnell.

I just pointed out the fact that Herr Schnell is upset about the Berlin
railway workers still enjoying labor standards which they had acquired
during GDR times.

And there you go, judging what people should or should not be happy with.

Ian