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Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust

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On 2016-07-03, Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
> In article <iaGdnd-s7uSMG-TKnZ2dnUU78RfNnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Andrew Swallow  <am.swallow@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>On 03/07/2016 21:15, Peter Flass wrote:
>>{snip}
>>
>>> I don't see why the politicians aren't amenable to negotiating a free-trade
>>> agreement like NAFTA, which doesn't come with all the baggage they want to
>>> tag on, except that they want to be as nasty and disagreeable as possible.
>>
>>Trump does not like NAFTA. Obama said Britain would be made to go to the 
>>end of the queue. Canada's PM is in some sort of feminist wonderland. 
>>Australia is having a general election. The UK is replacing its prime 
>>minister.
>>
>>A son of NAFTA that includes the USA, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New 
>>Zealand, Britain and possibly the Irish Republic is one thing that may 
>>happen in the future.
>
> That is a pipe dream. The economic gravitation of local trade will
> win. 
>
> The eurotunnel alone runs 6 freight trains an hour. 24x8x365. Both 
> ways. (well 20-minute schedules on Chrismas and Easter days). They
> take less than a third of the UK-EU traffic in goods. Ferries, ships
> and planes chip in too. Manchester to Milano overnight.
>
> US-UK traffic isn't within an order of magnitude of this.
>
> And traffic France-Germany-Italy dwarfs this by a good margin.
>
> The EU only has Finland, Ireland and Greece as outlying areas. 
> Finland is beefing up rail transport around the Baltic to Sweden
> quite radically.
>
> The EU is way too logistically integrated by now to even consider
> having limits to the Internal Market.
>
>>Note: Many Continental politicians do not like free trade but prefer 
>>'managed trade'. In managed trade they give commands to companies and 
>>frequently get lots of bribes.
>
> -- mrr
>
>

At one stage, there was a webcam that watched a Russia-Finland border
crossing, I think, about half-way North-South. Nothing would happen
for hours, then a truck would arrive. It was one of the first webcams 
online


-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
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Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-07-02 06:59 +0100
  Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-07-02 07:40 +0100
    Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-07-02 12:59 +0000
  Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust mausg@mail.com - 2016-07-02 08:09 +0000
  Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-07-02 19:53 -0400
    Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-03 07:11 -0400
      Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-07-03 11:40 -0400
        Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-07-03 17:22 +0100
          Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-03 16:15 -0400
            Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-07-03 20:38 +0000
              Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-03 18:55 -0400
                Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-07-04 06:53 +0000
            Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-07-03 23:33 +0200
              Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust mausg@mail.com - 2016-07-04 09:34 +0000
            Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-03 22:39 +0100
              Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-07-04 00:20 +0200
                Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust mausg@mail.com - 2016-07-04 09:43 +0000
              Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-03 18:55 -0400

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