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From: Diogenes on 3 Dec 2008 01:42 On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:36:17 +1100, CrazyCam <CrazyCam(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> I'd be happy to cede the Dictatorship ot Zebee. As you say, he's >> a top bloke. >Aye, and now that the V7 Classic is available, I can live with "everyone >must own at least one Guzzi" laws. That'd be the Australian made and owned Guzzi, right? Onya bike... Gerry
From: CrazyCam on 3 Dec 2008 02:01 Diogenes wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:36:17 +1100, CrazyCam > <CrazyCam(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > >>> I'd be happy to cede the Dictatorship ot Zebee. As you say, he's >>> a top bloke. > >> Aye, and now that the V7 Classic is available, I can live with "everyone >> must own at least one Guzzi" laws. > > That'd be the Australian made and owned Guzzi, right? > If there was to be an Ozzie Guzzi, it would have to have an engine designed before the second world war.....oh...well...err.... I'll be off now. regards, CrazyCam
From: Nev.. on 3 Dec 2008 02:32 Diogenes wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:44:11 +1100, CrazyCam > <CrazyCam(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > >> Diogenes wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> We get to support our own cotton growers (Australian jobs) >> Ah, well, yes.... do you mean like Auscot? >> >> They are the mob I used to work for before I saw the silliness of working. >> >> Despite the implication of their name, suspected by many to be an >> abbreviation of Australian Cotton, they are 100% Yankee. >> >> They are owned by one of the largest private companies in the US, apart >>from a brief period, some years ago, when Kerry Packer owned them. >> They have some very specialist accountants, who manage to prove that >> they rarely actually make a profit, but the left overs from income minus >> expenditure gets neatly channeled back to California, under the guise of >> loan repayments, specialist consulting, <mumble> etc. >> >> They manage to use lots of our water, they get all sorts of tax breaks, >> and, to be fair, without them Warren would cease to exist, Trangie would >> probably close too, and Narrabri and Moree would be seriously crippled. > > That's EXACTLY the sort of rort I'd be shutting down. So your plan to save Australian jobs is to penalise the corporations who are growing cotton and employing Australians. Tell me, how would you "shut down" these rorts.. by taking away the tariffs? or do you have some other sort of financial disincentive which causes the growers to plough the cotton back into the ground and sack the Australians employed by them? Nev.. '07 XB12X
From: Diogenes on 3 Dec 2008 02:36 On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:32:06 +1100, "Nev.." <idiot(a)mindless.com> wrote: >Diogenes wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:44:11 +1100, CrazyCam >> <CrazyCam(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Diogenes wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>>> We get to support our own cotton growers (Australian jobs) >>> Ah, well, yes.... do you mean like Auscot? >>> >>> They are the mob I used to work for before I saw the silliness of working. >>> >>> Despite the implication of their name, suspected by many to be an >>> abbreviation of Australian Cotton, they are 100% Yankee. >>> >>> They are owned by one of the largest private companies in the US, apart >>>from a brief period, some years ago, when Kerry Packer owned them. >>> They have some very specialist accountants, who manage to prove that >>> they rarely actually make a profit, but the left overs from income minus >>> expenditure gets neatly channeled back to California, under the guise of >>> loan repayments, specialist consulting, <mumble> etc. >>> >>> They manage to use lots of our water, they get all sorts of tax breaks, >>> and, to be fair, without them Warren would cease to exist, Trangie would >>> probably close too, and Narrabri and Moree would be seriously crippled. >> >> That's EXACTLY the sort of rort I'd be shutting down. > >So your plan to save Australian jobs is to penalise the corporations who >are growing cotton and employing Australians. Tell me, how would you >"shut down" these rorts.. by taking away the tariffs? or do you have >some other sort of financial disincentive which causes the growers to >plough the cotton back into the ground and sack the Australians employed >by them? I'd co-opt geniuses like JL and your good self, and all would be ok. Onya bike... Gerry
From: Zebee Johnstone on 3 Dec 2008 03:25
In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:36:17 +1100 CrazyCam <CrazyCam(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Aye, and now that the V7 Classic is available, I can live with "everyone > must own at least one Guzzi" laws. The seat is traditional Italian marble, other than that it seems a nice workhorse of a bike. Plenty of room to strap weird shaped loads on, and should make a good basis for all sorts of specials. I expect the Germans to create a number of aftermarket goodies for it. Zebee |