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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,uk.politics
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!telesci!srscnslt
- From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
- Subject: Re: Will Shetlanders pay?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.185248.21315@telesciences.com>
- Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
- References: <8100@skye.ed.ac.uk> <8119@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan8.120951.17350@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:52:48 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan8.120951.17350@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell) writes:
- >In article <8119@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
- >>
- >>In article <8100@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk I wrote:
- >>
- >># Meanwhile the Danish Kroner would collapse because the sum we originally
- >># paid for the Shetlands, plus compound interest, would probably be
- >># greater than the sum of all the money in the European Community.
- >>
- >>But if you think about the opportunity costs, it would probably be
- >>cheaper to give the Shetlands back to the Danes than to clean up the oil
- >>spill.
- >>
- >
- >Yes, I think that was why I suggested that now was a good time to give it
- >back.
- >
-
- But don't you think it would be _cheaper_ to simply give the Shetlands
- back to whoever you bought them from? That's gotta be less expensive than
- doing the clean-up, right?
-
- Redundantly,
- Mitch
-
- With apologies to KJ.
-
-
- --
- Mitch Gorman srscnslt@telesciences.com emrys@cellar.org
- "You can tell he's doing well by the look in inhuman eyes,
- Better not compromise -
- It won't be easy!"
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