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From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 13:51 unsettled wrote: > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > > I "lived" in poverty when a child but I didn't know it. You > > have middle class values and have no idea what is required for > > living. > > I never met anyone who grew up during the great depression > who didn't think they had a good life and a good childhood > on account of not having much. Yet America today seems to define ppls' worth by how much they earn / own. Graham
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 13:56 T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote > > > > I couldn't hire for any price. > > Yet under the NHS in the UK, my GP regularly makes house calls to his > patients. Amazing isn't it. BAH might also be interested to know about NHS Direct for 'out of hours' needs. I wonder if there's any US equivalent. Graham
From: T Wake on 12 Nov 2006 13:57 "Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message news:ej7nfa$9m2$5(a)blue.rahul.net... > In article <_fadnZyBlKEt2svYRVnytA(a)pipex.net>, > T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >>"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >>news:dgrbl2tp8gllrf3vcia0uembocqs0v9aei(a)4ax.com... >>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:33:35 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> >>> Gave us: >>> >>>> But not understanding >>>>what he's talking about never stopped him anyway. >>> >>> >>> Severe understatement. >> >>Wow. Yet another irony meter goes. > > I suggest a PTC, a MOV, a SIDAC, a Gas-tube Surge > Protector, a fuse and a spark gap, if you are going to keep bringing your > irony meters near this thread. > > You may want to add a spike snubbing inductor as well just to be safe. I will have to take your advice on board.
From: T Wake on 12 Nov 2006 14:03 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4557666A.D749389A(a)hotmail.com... > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >> >> > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> > >> >>I would argue that anybody who is still making minimum wage after any >> >>time >> >>at all in a job, isn't productive and doesn't deserve to be rewarded. >> > >> >There are some who are working at the limit of their ability. These >> >people still deserve enough of a wage to live on. I have, indirectly, >> >employed such a person in the past. He showed up for work on time and >> >remained for the required time, but instructions to him needed to be >> >made >> >without subordinate clauses because he could not parse them. He is >> >never >> >going to get promoted into management no matter how hard he works. >> >> The grocers hire people who think this way. They are their best >> workers. Now why do you assume that these types have to be >> paid only minimum wage and never get performance raises? > > Wow ! > > That's socialist talk ! Did you realise that ? /BAH is starting to espouse thinking which wouldn't have been out of place in Stalin's inner circle. I really like her objections to the bourgeoisie. Very revolutionary of her. I never had her pegged as a card carrying communist before, but it just goes to show you cant tell...
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 14:05
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > unsettled wrote: > > > > I never met anyone who grew up during the great depression > > who didn't think they had a good life and a good childhood > > on account of not having much. > > > > Take the model of hunter-gatherer tribes. They wouldn't > > begin to understand a value system that thought they are > > just "existing." Still the totality of their posessions > > was limited to what they could carry. > > So? If they had to move, they didn't have to worry about what to > leave behind. As long as they could eat, clothe themselves and keep a > roof over their heads, they had what mattered to them. American Indians ? Graham |