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From: krw on 15 Nov 2006 23:29 In article <455BBDAF.EC6FD0C2(a)hotmail.com>, rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > > krw wrote: > > > Plus taxes, fees, Spanish-American war debt... > > What fees btw ? > > The war debt is a joke I presume ? Not at all! Though the tax was recently rescinded because it became such a joke. -- Keith
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 23:34 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > krw wrote: > > > >> Plus taxes, fees, Spanish-American war debt... > > > > What fees btw ? > > It turns out that it is common practice among many service utility-type > companies in the US to attach various "fees" to the bill, as hidden charges, > so they can advertise a low price and make comparisons between competing > companies impossible. They are allowed to call something a "government fee" > even if the government hasn't assessed any sort of fee. For example, on the > phone bill, there's something called a "Federal Universal Line Subscriber > Fee". The "Federal" implies it is a government-imposed fee. It is not. It > is simply a fee that covers the fact that all phone companies now freely use > each others' wiring, and they need to pay maintenance on it to the company > that actually maintains it. Never mind the fact that that is the type of > thing that the main service fee used to cover, so this is just a rather > non-transparent way of raising the cost of service. It's kind of like > people on eBay who tack on a flat $25 for shipping, even though actual > shipping charges may only be a few dollars. The extra price makes it nearly > impossible to fairly compare prices among different sellers. There is no > regulation on this sort of thing, so at the risk of yanking the unsettled > creature's chain, this is one of the seamier, anticompetitive aspects of > capitalism. No such dodgy practice here thankfully. Graham
From: krw on 15 Nov 2006 23:34 In article <455BE505.C3EB266B(a)hotmail.com>, rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > > Jamie wrote: > > > Eeyore wrote: > > > krw wrote: > > > > > >>Plus taxes, fees, Spanish-American war debt... > > > > > > What fees btw ? > > > > > > The war debt is a joke I presume ? > > > > > > Graham > > > > > I realize that you know everything, > > If I did I wouldn't have asked would I ? > > > > but in the event > > you have slipped a cell here and there! We > > still pay taxes in our phone bill for the Spanish American War. > > Why in the *phone* bill ? Because they could? http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/07/02/spanish-american-war- tax-on-telephone-service-continues-today/ -- Keith
From: Eeyore on 15 Nov 2006 23:41 unsettled wrote: > You're an idiot who is caught in his own web of lies. The > paragraph above is just wrong. There is absolutely no way > to keep explosive gasses out of a conduit short of pressurizing > it from a "clean" source. Ordinarily that isn't done because > it is not necessary AND it is too expensive when the suitable > alternative actually in use is avalable. As long as it stops a flame front it'll do the job. Graham
From: lucasea on 15 Nov 2006 23:47
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455BCF25.2B474FB1(a)hotmail.com... > > > unsettled wrote: > >> T Wake wrote: >> >> much snippage >> >> > There are two issues you are trying to conflate into one. >> >> > 1. A NHS would be an improvement over the current US system. >> >> You apparantly have no idea how badly governments can >> screw things up. An NHS in the USA would probably be >> a huge step backwards. > > Why this continual negativity ? I completely fail to understand his attitude. The truism that governments screw things up badly is true. However, that hasn't happened in the case of the UK or Canadian NHS. Apparently he thinks that the US government has a unique talent for screwing things up. I can't understand why he has so much contempt for a country that has obviously treated him extremely well (as near as I can tell, much better than he deserves, based on his abrasive and abusive personality.) Eric Lucas |