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From: Eeyore on 14 Nov 2006 07:09 Ben Newsam wrote: > ISTR that each GP's list > may have about 10,000 patients, but I don't know the actual number. You're way over the right figure there Ben. 2,000 is around average. Graham
From: John Fields on 14 Nov 2006 07:23 On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:30:37 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message >news:a94e9$45565e88$4fe73d4$10122(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... >>T Wake wrote: >> >>> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >>> news:vq9cl2dvd1icib3l1k30fv47kpdpevn2i8(a)4ax.com... >>> >>>>On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:45:06 -0000, "T Wake" >>>><usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us: >>>> >>>> >>>>>"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >>>>>news:4krbl29h7imp8vc91vrkss29r591e1lbtn(a)4ax.com... >>>>> >>>>>>On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:39:29 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> Gave us: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >>>>>>>news:g1eal2dosisofr40ccnm98kcgi8pbtiar0(a)4ax.com... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Even Western Digital has its products made and assembled elsewhere, >>>>>>>>but it is still an American company. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>...and what fraction of their workforce would be American? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Eric Lucas >>>>>> >>>>>> The up front investiture, hardware product, the profits, the name, >>>>>>the quality assurance, the engineering... All the parts that matter. >>>>> >>>>>How is that a fraction of the workforce? Do you mean to imply that the >>>>>workers don't matter? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I knew I could count on a twit like you not to get it. >>> >>> >>> It's ok. I know you cant explain yourself properly. Your educational >>> difficulties are pretty apparent. >>> >>> Feel free to explain what you meant by responding to "and what fraction >>> of their workforce would be American?" with "The up front investiture, >>> hardware product, the profits, the name, the quality assurance, the >>> engineering... All the parts that matter." >>> >>> I am sure it will be as entertaining as the rest of your posts. >> >> >> His point was valid in as much as you've shifted the >> goalposts because you were losing the argument. >> >> Your new question might be valid if asked in isolation >> from the discussion which was at hand. >> >> First concede that American products, designed by >> Americans and/or legal aliens in American employ, >> are sometimes manufactured by non-American hands >> operating American designed machines in Pacific >> Rim nations. After that we can discuss your newer >> query. > > >Well, actually, since my question was asked first, perhaps you might want to >hold JoeBlows to the same standard of answering the question before moving >on, that you do TWake. Oh, that's right, you only demand those questions be >answered that support your point of view.... --- Very nicely insightful. :-) He also requires that the questions be answered in ways of which he approves so that he can be the ultimate arbiter of the validity of the answers. -- JF
From: jmfbahciv on 14 Nov 2006 07:21 In article <Hw06h.5436$IR4.3256(a)newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:ej9pdm$8qk_004(a)s785.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <luM5h.3942$Sw1.2732(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: <snip> >>> Ever wonder why most (all?) water >>>treatment plants are adjacent to either a river, lake, or some other large >>>body of water? >> >> No. > >Well, that would be your problem, then. Not at all. I didn't have to question why because I knew why. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 14 Nov 2006 07:24 In article <eja0cc$9nk$1(a)blue.rahul.net>, kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <ej9pql$8qk_007(a)s785.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>In article <4557506C.83F6D696(a)earthlink.net>, >[....] >>> A tap is for threading holes. >> >>What? Explain, please? > >The tool for threading (cutting threads on the inside surface of) a hole >is called a "rap". Imagine a threaded bolt with 4 grooves cut along its >length adn a square head. It is made from very hard metal. You drill a >hole and then run the tap in. The it is held by a tee-handle. You turn >it one turn in and then back a half and so on. Thanks. I used to thread pipe for my Dad. He never called it a tap. He called a threader. He had two kinds; one was easy to use and the other one was a PITA for a little weak kid to use. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 14 Nov 2006 07:27
In article <45586F00.261B7EDA(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> My folks, >> >> >>> who will not see 80 again, dug a dry well by hand in the >> >> >>> summer of 2005. >> >> >> >> >> >>Dare I ask why ? >> >> > >> >> >I think we would call that a "sink" rather than a "well", or possibly >> >> >a "soakaway". >> >> >> >> Oh, dear. Have I just tripped over another word that doesnt' >> >> tranlate into English? :-) >> >> >> >> If I had to guess, I would say that your soakaway is our leach field. >> > >> >It sounds like it. >> > >> >Soakaways are common here to for rainwater especially. >> >> I can see using those for grey water, but not black water. >> Grey water is our lingo for water that is used for showers, >> clothes and dish washing. Black water is the volumes that >> have sewerage in it. > >We use those terms too. OK. I wasn't sure people across the pond used the same terms and tried to explain. This has been a gold mine of new word usages. > >Some ppl like to recycle their grey water for other uses. I just let nature figure it out. /BAH |