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To: JohnG who wrote (19529)	4/12/2002 5:26:58 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

Great, great, the days of miracles are not over yet!! I hope you are also familiar with the term "potato-liberalism", partly translated to american as "potato-libertarianism", where potato refers to the potato-famine of especially Ireland in the late 1800s and the UK "liberal" (libertarian) policies. (still hot potato, btw, mopping up the results of the early 1990s) Anyway, using a "socialist" label on the UK 2-party system is kind of funnny, although they are busy "converging", especially if one uses one at least 5 decade old label as "euro-socialist". Luckily Europe is blessed with this "trans-atlantic bridge", best, most reliable buddy of USA, but there are many translation problems for both words, their meanings and just general thought and mechanisms, passing back and forth on that bridge. I have always wondered what would have happened if Germany would have ended the auction-game- stupidity and the task would not have been handed over to France. The _FIRST_ 3G auction was obviously in Finland, as part of that little game. (takes the cat itself to lift its tail) Ilmarinen "auction and court" traditions in USA are also fun, maybe one reason for both auction-TV-e-Bay and court-TV?? (I think I still have a tape on the "pioneering auction" stuff somewhere, aired over CSPAN before internet is what it is now, archived,etc) With all due respect for USA trying to avoid too obvious domestic monopolies, and some fear of trade barriers, as some USA monopolies can be allowed, trusting global competition.