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Eastern Sugar is receiving nearly 150 million euros for closing five facilities


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#1 Posted by

ian dowie
Unregistered user
Aug 28, 2009 9:55 am CET

Jiri; you have my consent to add the Queen of England to my list; you are a free man; and I,m glad your alive; the only other 'suggestion' I have is to eat good psychic polevka....

#2 Posted by

Jiri Hubacek
Aug 27, 2009 4:31 pm CET

Well,Ian,

I guess we must add your term "horseshit" to your list of terminology in our comments,right?

#3 Posted by

ian dowie
Unregistered user
Aug 26, 2009 9:48 am CET

Regardings weights and measures; to the best of my limited knowledge; 'horseshit' tends to have a self defining overweight.........

#4 Posted by

Peter Andrews
Aug 25, 2009 9:20 pm CET

>>Using a capitals or not is irrelevant.

Actually it's not. But at least you manage to get the "o" and the "n" right.

#5 Posted by

Jiri Hubacek
Aug 25, 2009 1:17 pm CET

Actually,Canada is using metric system; its tonnes being 1000 kilograms.
However,both archaic term long ton(2240pounds=1000Kg )and short ton (2000 pounds)are also used.
Using a capitals or not is irrelevant.

#6 Posted by

ian dowie
Unregistered user
Aug 25, 2009 10:20 am CET

Good to see Mr Fisher being 'firm' on the 'origins of energy sources' re bi-lateral Austrian chat over coffee; this was impressive. Good thing about motorway route having some debate on the Czech side; some things are to beautiful to be treated with 'infrastructure hooliganism'.

#7 Posted by

ian dowie
Unregistered user
Aug 21, 2009 7:30 pm CET

I 'looked at' Eastern Sugar and asked 'contacts' the deal; here we go) Clever 'company' that studied E.U. subsidies and employed legal experts (ita.law.uv. paris) where complicity and denial of obligations to E.U. regulations both internal in CZ and with partners consistantly gave conflicting 'information' . The circus, based on figures that E.U. funding managers could never pin down due to collusion, incompetence. The company were careful not to vilolte law, rather just be seen as unaware of quota's, missing information, information recieved was deemed as 'illogical; disturbing, making no sense'. The author here is correct in as much as the whole deal was such a shambolic mixture of beurocratic garbage that the cost of legal unravelling was wieghed up, the counter legal suits, leading to a final decision of;
'Heres a few million, now bugger off and keep quiet'. This of course is of no comfort to those now unemployed; just to those who 'pulled off' the 'sweetest scam' that E.U. comminsioners hope never ever surfaces.
Its worth researching this if your into 'tragic laughter through incompetance'.

#8 Posted by

ian dowie
Unregistered user
Aug 21, 2009 6:27 pm CET

Its Kilos' ..... lol...lol...lol...

#9 Posted by

Peter Andrews
Aug 21, 2009 1:54 pm CET

>>Either word is perfectly acceptable and TON is used far more.

On the contrary, they are quite different measures.

The British Ton is 2240 lbs.
The US/Canadian Ton is 2000 lbs. (note the capital "T" in both cases).
The tonne is the unit used in the Czech Republic and other metric countries and is 1000Kg.

#10 Posted by

Paul Margulies
Aug 21, 2009 9:10 am CET

Chill out, Mr. Andrews, it's just a difference from American to European English. Either word is perfectly acceptable and TON is used far more.

#11 Posted by

Peter Andrews
Aug 21, 2009 9:04 am CET

>>"metric tons"

The word you are looking for is "tonnes".

#12 Posted by

ian dowie
Unregistered user
Aug 20, 2009 2:11 pm CET

My oh My; ain't life just so sweet for some. Any further comments from me would be detremental to sensitive readers!!
 
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