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From: lucasea on 12 Nov 2006 21:06 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:3vefl2p9f3jotm9lf5ovjdn2ujpnps41j6(a)4ax.com... > On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:45:49 +0000, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >>> >>> >Lots of insurance on electrical goods is madness, and you tend to >>> >expect >>> >that. Cat insurance is also insane - some policies ask for in the >>> >region of >>> >?10 pcm per cat and wont pay for the first ?50. If you take the money >>> >and >>> >put it in a savings account you get the best of both worlds, as long as >>> >you >>> >have the emergency fund for when it needs a ?500 operation... >>> > >>> > >>> You would spend $500 on a cat operation? ($ is merely used to indicate >>> money and not type of currency). >> >>Some ppl might well do. > > --- > I would, and have. I haven't yet, but I would if required. > Some might not understand, but we love our kitties and they're part > of our family, so if it takes some money to fix them when they're > broke, so be it. Some folks don't understand that there are people that treat their pets like family. I personally can't understand anybody that doesn't. Eric Lucas
From: Jamie on 12 Nov 2006 21:09 Michael A. Terrell wrote: > Jamie wrote: > >>I'm sorry, you still haven't gone back far enough that gave >>justification to "John Fields" comment. >> Keep side stepping, you're dance is getting entertaining. > > > > Like the "Dancing Ducks" on "WKRP in Cincinnati"? > > :) -- "I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken" Real Programmers Do things like this. http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 21:11 Ben Newsam wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >I'm wondering if BAH thinks we have our treatment 'rationed'. > >> > >> Would you know if that happened? Since you can't "shop around" > >> and compare, you cannot find out if your treatment is rationed, > >> especially its efficacy. > > > >In one case I wasn't happy with the treatment I got from a concultant so my > >doctor referred me to another one. > > And if you were still really unhappy with the treatment you got, you > could always pay for private treatment somewhere if that's what you > wanted, that option is always available. Yes. Going private is always an option. Graham
From: Jamie on 12 Nov 2006 21:13 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message > news:3vefl2p9f3jotm9lf5ovjdn2ujpnps41j6(a)4ax.com... > >>On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:45:49 +0000, Eeyore >><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>> >>>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Lots of insurance on electrical goods is madness, and you tend to >>>>>expect >>>>>that. Cat insurance is also insane - some policies ask for in the >>>>>region of >>>>>?10 pcm per cat and wont pay for the first ?50. If you take the money >>>>>and >>>>>put it in a savings account you get the best of both worlds, as long as >>>>>you >>>>>have the emergency fund for when it needs a ?500 operation... >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>You would spend $500 on a cat operation? ($ is merely used to indicate >>>>money and not type of currency). >>> >>>Some ppl might well do. >> >>--- >>I would, and have. > > > I haven't yet, but I would if required. > > > >>Some might not understand, but we love our kitties and they're part >>of our family, so if it takes some money to fix them when they're >>broke, so be it. > > > Some folks don't understand that there are people that treat their pets like > family. I personally can't understand anybody that doesn't. > > Eric Lucas > > My dog understands me better than my wife does, and that is just find with me. My Dog gets what ever she wants. -- "I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken" Real Programmers Do things like this. http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
From: lucasea on 12 Nov 2006 21:14
"krw" <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote in message news:MPG.1fc11e03f06bbb69989af7(a)news.individual.net... > In article <1eWdnc1_CsAzoMvYRVnyvA(a)pipex.net>, > usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com says... >> >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> news:ej4l1b$8ss_033(a)s977.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> > In article <4555374F.EF500B95(a)hotmail.com>, >> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>krw wrote: >> >> >> >>> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... >> >>> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> > >> >>> > > Raising the minimum wage is stupid and insane. >> >>> > >> >>> > Why ? >> >>> >> >>> Why should the federal government tell anyone what their worth is? >> >>> > >> >>> > I saw it can be a slow as $5 an hour. >> >>> >> >>> The federal minimum wage is $5.15/hr. Some states are higher >> >>> (Vermont is $7.25 and going up). I'm not sure anyone really works >> >>> for the minimum (MacD's is advertising $9.00/hr.). >> >> >> >>So why the fuss over increasing what would seem to be a notional >> >>minimum ? >> >> >> > >> > You should notice that Keith is swearing. That is not is usual >> > style. I guess he's got the same problems I have. AS minimum >> > wage goes skyhigh, so do property taxes, real estate, food, other >> > taxes, and other things needed for survival. >> >> You both have claimed that "hardly anyone" would work for the minimum >> wage. >> If this is the case, it will have no impact at all. > > "Hardly anyone" who needed that job to live on. There are others > that don't "need" a "living wage". Great. So you model is Donald Trump manning the drive-through at the local McDonalds. >> We could always go back to pre-black death serfdom. That kept the price >> of >> _everything_ low. > > Yeah, *that's* a logical argument. 'Bout as logical as anything I've seen from you. Eric Lucas |