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From: krw on 16 Nov 2006 14:26 In article <ejhvnl$8qk_019(a)s938.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > In article <MPG.1fc5b33466bcef3a989b8c(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >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 Though the tax was recently rescinded because it 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. > > > Is that the one that requires an IRS form for the 2006 income > taxes to get your money back? Hadn't heard anything about that. -- Keith
From: krw on 16 Nov 2006 14:28 In article <ejhv75$8qk_016(a)s938.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > In article <MPG.1fc51b4bef154b2c989b82(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >In article <455B40A5.79F0C308(a)hotmail.com>, > >rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > >> > >> > >> krw wrote: > >> > >> > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > >> > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> > > > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > > >Well, Eeyore, this would belie the assertion that she lives too far > from a > >> > > > >population center to get decent DSL. > >> > > > > >> > > > I live in a town. There is no DSL line strung. > >> > > > You people are starting to get really annoying. > >> > > > >> > > DSL comes down an ordinary telephone line ! > >> > > >> > Only if you're within 17K' of the CO. > >> > >> I make that just a fraction over 3 miles. > > > >I'm about four miles from the CO according to the crow. How the > >telco snakes things is another issue. On the line that went back > >to the CO I couldn't get better than about 26K. The other one went > >to a SLC in the neighborhood and I could get 49-53K reliably on > >that line. DSL was still unavailable. > > > >> It works over longer distances overr here, albeit not flat out. > > > >It falls off fast. They're not willing to even try it. > > I'm talking to you both--towns are trying to get themselves > wired. It will be a few years (I think it will be years and not > months) before the laws and permissions and telcos and FCC > sort all of this out). Some of the outlieing towns where even 56K isn't available are going with wireless Internet to get around the FCC tariffs. -- Keith
From: krw on 16 Nov 2006 14:31 In article <ejhv0f$8qk_015(a)s938.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > In article <MPG.1fc3cafce1cb3355989b42(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >In article <ejcl5p$8qk_009(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > >> In article <MPG.1fc25ed1ed313919989b01(a)news.individual.net>, > >> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >> >In article <ej9j89$8ss_002(a)s785.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > >> >> In article <MPG.1fc110d0730ee4c8989af1(a)news.individual.net>, > >> >> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >> > >> <snip> > >> > >> >> >Sure, but they learn not to do that! ;-) Falling on CCA treated > >> >> >SYP isn't much fun either. > >> >> > >> >> My feet are shuddering just thinking about walking on that trex > >> >> stuff. > >> > > >> >Trex isn't likely to leave a nasty arsenic coated splinter (I wear > >> >shoes when walking on my CCA SYP deck). > >> > >> Point. I haven't gone barefoot since I lived with my folks. > >> Urban places have too much broken glass that never gets > >> cleaned up. > > > >That's because no one will pay minimum wage to clean it up so the > >job doesn't get done. ;-) > > <GRIN> The broken glass was awful before the bottle bill. It's > been getting worse lately. Perople areound here have too much > money. That's one of the intrusions into our lives I don't object to much. Maybe it's time to raise the deposit. I think MI has been $.10 for many years. The non-removeable pop-tops are another good idea. -- Keith
From: T Wake on 16 Nov 2006 14:32 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455BD2C0.7A9B7952(a)hotmail.com... > > > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message >> >> > As a side note,what sort of surface area would a 4 bedroom house in the >> > US >> > have? >> >> NB she said 4 rooms, not 4 bedrooms. That would typically mean bedroom, >> kitchen, living room and bathroom. That's probably on the order of 1000 >> sq >> ft. > > LOL. My house has that area and it has 7 rooms. We have history and the Americans have space...
From: T Wake on 16 Nov 2006 14:34
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ejhou8$8qk_004(a)s938.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <4559CC2E.14E3A427(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: >>> >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> >Your argument that we can't switch to a nationalized health care >>> >> >system >>> >> >because we have problems with the current system is exactly 180 >>> >> >degrees >>> >> >out >>> >> >of phase with reality. We need to switch to a nationalized health >>> >> >care >>> >> >system precisely becuase we have problems with the current system. >>> >> >>> >> The current problems are *caused* by having insuranace as the >>> >> basis of medical service delivery. Forcing >>> >> everybody to go the insurance route is flat out stupid. >>> > >>> >You would appear to be seeing the light ! >>> >>> I see the consequences just fine. Forcing, by law, everyone >>> to have insurance is the latest idiocy. Now people are trying >>> to change our state constitution to make having insurance >>> a right. Please note that these people never say receiving >>> medical treatments but merely insurance. >> >>You need to get away from the concept of commercial >>insurance. With that model >>there is no drive to save money. > > *I* do not need to get away from the concept. I am telling you > what our Democrats have in mind when they talk about a single-payer > system. And *we* are telling you that is irrelevant. A national health service would improve the provision of healthcare to the lower paid segments of the US population. >> >>Remember, the NHS is not insurance. > > I am telling you that your type of NHS would never be > implemented here nor would it work. Two assumptions. What basis do you use to claim it would never be implemented? Why wouldnt it work? > Yours depends on administrating the services locally. That cannot happen > in a large country. Nonsense. > Your NHS would not work if it had > to expand all way to Italy and Russia. Assumption based on nothing more than bias. |