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From: Eeyore on 14 Nov 2006 09:46 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > >>$30 a month is massively expensive for USENET. > > > > I don't think so. The service provided was 7x24, never down > > and the people knew what was going whenever something odd > > was happening. When I said I got what I paid for, I meant > > that the service was superb, timely, and absent of all bullshit. > > ...for which most people pay $10 - $20 for dialup these days. $30 is a DSL > rate. You were being soaked. > > >>I pay ?20 per month for 2MB > >>broadband, unlimited downloads and unlimited newsgroup access. > >> > >>Still, when you are living on $12k pa, I bet the reduced price was > >>welcome. > > > > No. It was not because in return for the reduced price I got awful > > service. And I was fussy about this one since I was a pro in the > > biz. > > You need to get DSL. Service is great, mine never goes down (3 different > locations now), and the faster download speeds would actually allow you to > browse the web--i.e., get real information. From BAH's response to a post of mine about the same matter, I got the impression that she may be a long distance from a major population centre. Even so, 512k DSL will work ok over a heck of a long distance. My first 'broadband' was actually 256k ( or was it even 128k ? ) but was so convenient just from the perspective of being always on. I got the 'cheapy' version to trial it and it got upgraded to 512k shortly after anyway. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 14 Nov 2006 09:42 In article <4559CAB2.96A60727(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >> >> >BTW, we were both making a quarter above the minimum wage of >> >$2/hr.> >> >> You were rich. When I started saving for college, I was making >> $.65/hour. I thought I was very rich because before that >> I was making $.07/lb picking blueberries. Or a dollar a day >> babysitting brats. I dropped the babysitting; it wasn't worth >> the money. > >When was this ? 1960s. In the 50s, we sold produce, pop and beer bottles, golf balls retrieved out of the river. /BAH
From: lucasea on 14 Nov 2006 09:46 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ejcgjj$8ss_020(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <6qeel21eiq2hk5e0pf9i7p1g25flrpn05d(a)4ax.com>, > Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >>On Sun, 12 Nov 06 13:47:55 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>So you do have to be vetted. You already have limited access. >>>When, or if, your GP infrastructure goes to pieces, you'll have >>>no access. >> >><Boggle> That's plain daft. WHy should it fall to pieces? Or rather >>why would the GP infrastructure fall to pieces leaving the hospital >>and consultant system in place? They are all part of the same thing. > > GPs in the US are rarer than hen's teeth. Maybe in your neck of the woods. I've never had trouble finding any within a few miles of my house, in the couple dozen or so places I've lived. I'd say your experience is *very* non-reprepsentative, and extrapolating to the entire US is dishonest or self-deluded. > I don't know of any > who practice within 25 mile radius here. Sounds like you just chose a really crappy place to put down roots--no GPs, crappy internet service, have to plan trips to the grocery store like everybody else plans vacations.... Certainly very non-representative of the US as a whole. You're a capitalist--vote with your feet. Eric Lucas
From: jmfbahciv on 14 Nov 2006 09:43 In article <Xsk6h.25034$TV3.14256(a)newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:ejce2r$8ss_013(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <iSL5h.3631$Sw1.1074(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>news:ej7ffd$8qk_042(a)s851.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>> >>>> After my tuition and dorm fee were paid, >>> >>>So just because you didn't pay it, you think it was free??? You're >>>getting >>>to be as bad as those people that <gasp> want nationalized health care >>>because they think it is free!!! >> >> I paid it. You do like to leap illogical bounds. > >And you like to imply things that just aren't true. You weren't living on >"$2/day". Right. It was $2/month. > You were living on $2/day plus tuition and room and board. Very, >very different. You apparently have a problem reading. I stated so. /BAH
From: lucasea on 14 Nov 2006 09:48
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ejch86$8ss_023(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <guadndllr-dd1srYRVnytg(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>news:ej796a$8qk_012(a)s851.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>> In article <c5b06$45565eec$4fe73d4$10122(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>>>T Wake wrote: >>>> >>>>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >>>>> news:eNp5h.7027$yl4.5770(a)newssvr12.news.prodigy.com... >>>>> >>>>>>"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message >>>>>>news:e96cl2tviek822ftetj8rtphkkoold1oqe(a)4ax.com... >>>>>> >>>>>>>(or if >>>>>>>immobile, I ask to be visited at home), >>>>>> >>>>>>Is this a standard form of care in the UK? We haven't had doctors in >>>>>>general make house-calls here in the US for at least 40 years. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Where I live it is very common place, but there is a high percentage >>>>> of >>>>> older people in this village. Generally speaking though doctors will >>>>> make >>>>> house calls as required - it has been a couple of years since I last >>>>> needed >>>>> one, but there was no difficulty. My wife phoned the Health Centre and >>>>> told >>>>> the receptionist I was unable to get out of bed, three hours later the >>>>> doctor was round to treat me. >>>>> >>>>> The health centres also have nurse practitioners (extra trained >>>>> nurses) >>>>> who >>>>> spend a lot of time doing home visits. >>>> >>>>We have a local physician who makes scheduled house >>>>calls every Thursday. His office is used by a >>>>visiting podiatrist that day. >>>> >>> >>> Now note all the times you all wrote "local". That's important. >>> The US is big. There isn't much "local" anymore. You go >>> into the city or urban centers and get into their medical >>> production line. >> >>Local doesn't have to mean small. When I lived in the centre of London I >>had >>a local GP and a local health centre. > > Yes it does to mean small. A local health center has a small > capacity. Even if you assume that all medical appointments will > take 5 minutes, the capacity of any center is severely limited. > Say it is in a population of 10,000 and all come down with a > flu in the same 24 hours. The center won't be able to handle > 100, let along 10,000. You see to have this weird perception that there will be no doctors under the NHS. Why do you assume this? Sounds to me like they have roughly the same concentration of doctors as in the US. Eric Lucas |