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From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 22:45 unsettled wrote: > Try talking to Lucas, Eeyore, and Wake about whether > or not the woman denying service to your brother should > have been in that position. Their Marxist socialist > humanism Simple humanity is now communist is it ? Do you clain to be a Christian by any chance ? > would have given her the opportunity to hold > down that job and given her raises because human beings > should be paid "a living wage." What I'd really like to know is who told her not to admit patients in need of urgent attention actually. Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 22:50 Don Bowey wrote: > I'd rather have a new MG, but they are not importing to the US yet. What are these new MGs ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 22:53 Ben Newsam wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:19:48 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >That's not how people at McDonald's give change. That's not how anybody > >gives change any more, they just give over the amount of money the cash > >register tells them to. If the bill is 5.35, and you give them a 10, the > >register will tell them to give you 4.65 in change, and they do. No special > >skills necessary or learned. > > And to think that I was trained to do multiplication and division in > pounds, shillings, and pence. They don't know they're born. Do today's youngsters even know about ? s d ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 22:59 unsettled wrote: > Not really. The minimum bandwidth necessary for > ordinary POTS phone service isn't sufficient to > support DSL and in much of the US DSL is not > available. DSL works just fine over good old fashioned twisted pairs. For quite some distance too. It was found necessary to remove an old RF filter on my line when it went to 8Mbps though ! ADSL2 when implemented should be good for ~ 20Mbps where I live. http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/graph/index.htm Graham
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 23:05
unsettled wrote: > Don Bowey wrote: > > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>Jonathan Kirwan angrily proclaims: > >> > >>>The specific case should not have happened. Imperfect as humans may > >>>be admitted as being, this particular case is a simple failure that > >>>didn't even have to happen and wouldn't have, in other existing > >>>systems in place and operating already, today. > >> > >>>Excusing the specifics by moving to a useless extreme that applies to > >>>anything and says nothing doesn't help us progress at all. > >> > >>Fact remains we'll never achieve zero defects. > >> > >>As I said before, I empathize. The reality is terrible > >>things can happen to any of us. In your case it was > >>a close call, too close for comfort. There was, fortunately, > >>enough of a failsafe system in place to overcome stupidity, > >>which has no cure. > >> > >>Try talking to Lucas, Eeyore, and Wake about whether > > > > ^ > > and Bowey > > If you insist. > > >>or not the woman denying service to your brother should > >>have been in that position. Their Marxist socialist > >>humanism would have given her the opportunity to hold > >>down that job and given her raises because human beings > >>should be paid "a living wage." > > > That's a really bad lapse of both knowledge and logic. > > No matter how much you wiggle and wriggle and blather, > you can't alter the basic issue in this case. > > Your denial that the situation arose out of ordinary > stupidity, which has no cure, disqualifies you from > further attention on this subject, or any other for > that matter. Stupidity ? I'd wager it arose out of poor management. Graham |