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From: unsettled on 15 Nov 2006 14:45 T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > news:ejf15m$8ss_004(a)s792.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > >>In article <455A52EE.ED61DAAB(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>>T Wake wrote: >>> >>> >>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote >>>> >>>>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>After my tuition and dorm fee were paid, I lived on $2/month when >>>>>>>I went to college; the $2 included clothes washing and Tampax. >>>>>> >>>>>>I defy you to feed yourself on $2 a week. I defy you to feed yourself, >>>>>>travel to and from work and afford work clothes on $2 a week. >>>>> >>>>>I defy you to think of ways to stop spending money. >>>> >>>>I can think of lots of ways. What does that have to do with what I said? >> >>You >> >>>>claim to have lived on $2 a month as an example of how people should be >>>>so >>>>happy to live on $200 per week. I say not only are you living in a >>>>mystical >>>>past of fifty years ago, but living on a wage of $200 per week in this >>>>day >>>>and age is far from easy. >>> >>>I wonder how she got health cover on $2 a month ! >> >>I didn't have it. > > > You are such a gambler. There's your middle class attitude at work again.
From: unsettled on 15 Nov 2006 14:47 T Wake wrote: > You know at McDonalds they hand over the sum of money they are told to, > don't you? They don't get told to hand over a "dime." A number appears and > they give that much money. Same as anyone else working on a cash register. > > They know how to add three columns, but they don't know how to subtract three or four coulmns in their heads.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 15 Nov 2006 15:08 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > Perhaps. If you don't have carpeting it takes about two minutes to > vacuum if you don't move furniture. > > There are ways to do cleaning efficiently. The pros have all the > tricks. Part of the habit of living is be in contant pickup > mode. Reduces cleaning times by a lot. I cleaned my one man room in the barracks in about two minutes, every day. I never failed an inspection, and I got a good review from a general touring the base from the Pentagon. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: Michael A. Terrell on 15 Nov 2006 15:21 unsettled wrote: > > > If you weren't so close minded, you might learn something. > > While I learn things all the time, it doesn't seem likely > you'll be providing anything new and of consequence. A true sign of a mind that is closed, and boarded up for the long haul. > > In this case, its "a long, hollow cylinder, > > usually steel, through which electrons are conducted.". > > Actually wires are most often conducted through conduit. > Whether or not there's such a thing as an electron or > not that's party to electrical signaling and power is > an altogether separate subject. Yes, you technician > types, rely on the electron as the only model since > that's all you'll ever need. You need to cut back on those homebrew drugs. > Take your microwave discussions elsewhere please. I did. One of the "Microwaves" I worked on is part of a communications system aboard the International Space Station. > > The reducers are made from steel pipe, even if you > > do consider them to be bushings. > > Naw. Go read up on this. See how they're manufactured. I asked the manufacturer, about 25 years ago. They cut threads on both sides of the pipe, and cut them into the reducers on a lathe. Even you would recognize what I'm talking about if you saw one. > I don't know what your problem is, but I hope you get > over it soon. > > A fitting, by definition, is not a pipe. Particulars > of material are inconsequential to this discussion. In other words, you can't possibly be wrong, even when faced with evidence and personal experience? No wonder you are "Unsettled" Your neurons never had a chance, did they? Maybe you should change your CB handle to "Inconsequential"? -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: Jonathan Kirwan on 15 Nov 2006 16:22
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:05:36 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Jonathan Kirwan wrote: > >> My own brother, some years back, was almost refused care at a full >> care hospital, Meridian Park, just off of the Nyberg Rd exit of I5, >> south of Portland and Tigard. It was an emergency case, he'd >> swallowed broken glass and was in severe pain at the time. But he had >> no insurance and those at the desk simply refused to let him talk to a >> doctor about it. It was only because there was an attorney in the >> waiting room, who stood up and shouted at the receptionist that he >> would personally bring suit against them unless they helped my brother >> see a doctor right away, that they capitulated and let him speak to a >> doctor. When I got down there (I hadn't been called until after that >> event), the doctor told me that if it had been as little as just two >> more hours, my brother would certainly have been dead. They got to >> him in time, though. But not easily. > >That's shocking. > >Graham It is. I'm sure it's not the only such case in the US, either. It should never happen, at all. Jon |