From: lucasea on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:455C2EE4.7204CAE3(a)hotmail.com...
>
>
> Ben Newsam wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:34:51 +0000, Eeyore
>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >No such dodgy practice here thankfully.
>>
>> Not in the phone industry, perhaps. How about the banking field
>> though?
>
> It's all in the small print with them.

The disingenuous names the phone company uses for the fees is exactly
equivalent to using fine print.

ERic Lucas


From: Don Bowey on
On 11/16/06 1:30 PM, in article 455CD891.1B57E916(a)hotmail.com, "Eeyore"
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> T Wake wrote:
>
>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>>
>>> If 20-year old males can figure out how to pay a $2K
>>> bill for car insurance, they can figure out how to get
>>> medical coverage.
>>
>> Gender card aside, normally these 20 year old males are living with their
>> parents.
>
> BAH presumes these minimum wage kids have cars too ?
>
> She will do*anything* to evade the issue whilst trying to make out that other
> ppl are simply being irresponsible and therefore 'deserve' their lack of
> access
> to medical treatemnt.
>
> It's remarkably unChristian for one thing.

Now, now.....Remember - there are many more religious beliefs than
Christian. You surprised me with that one.

>
> Graham
>
>

From: lucasea on

"Don Bowey" <dbowey(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
news:C181E0F8.4D06E%dbowey(a)comcast.net...
> On 11/16/06 6:48 AM, in article
> ejhtoa$8qk_006(a)s938.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com, "jmfbahciv(a)aol.com"
> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <4559D132.A2D0BE21(a)hotmail.com>,
>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The same problem arises just as much in the big cities too.
>>>
>>> In fact, in a rural location you likely don't have the easy means to
>>> spread
>>> infections that fast anyway, no crowded transit systems and the like for
>> example.
>>
>> I'm in an urban area. Around here, flu shots and nasal spray is
>> dispensed in the grocery stores. There were no signs that said
>> the flu clinics were being held and the news said that the
>> distribution would be fixed soon, so I went to the grocery store
>> Sunday. I took a chance. Now I've caught what they've put in
>> this year's flu cocktail.
>
> Or as is common and more likely, you had the flu virus before you got your
> shot. Look around for someone else to blame, and keep a mirror handy.

Question for BAH--what amount of time passed between when you went to the
store and when you caught "what they've put in this year's flu cocktail"?

Eric Lucas


From: Don Bowey on
On 11/16/06 1:43 PM, in article dLednalCyqAORsHYnZ2dnUVZ8sudnZ2d(a)pipex.net,
"T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:

>
> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
> news:n1hol2h34lg57imeobnd9btu9e4dmabv9f(a)4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:27:00 -0800, Don Bowey <dbowey(a)comcast.net>
>> Gave us:
>>
>>> On 11/15/06 7:28 PM, in article
>>> limnl2114gmfvlaar0okbtbic645gcbuoc(a)4ax.com,
>>> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:28:04 +0000, Eeyore
>>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 !
>>>>>
>>>>> Graham
>>>>
>>>> Wrong.
>>>>
>>>> ADSL REQUIRES a minimum of an ISDN switched POTS line.
>>>> That means that the customer's first switch has to be ISDN for his
>>>> area to be an ASDL capable area. THEN his Plain Old Telephone Service
>>>> line will do DSL.
>>>
>>> Wrong.
>>>
>>> An ISDN DSL is only two 64 kbit/s Bearer Channels and the 18 kbit/s Data
>>> Channel which is used for signaling, etc. An ADSL does not require ISDN.
>>
>> What an ISDN switch house provides is the digital part. If there
>> is no digital switch in the first leg of the system, the area is not
>> capable of providing ADSL service.
>
> As always, you are wrong but continue to insist you are correct.
>
>

I suppose we could compare credentials, but I won't waste any more time with
your ignorance.

From: T Wake on

"Don Bowey" <dbowey(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
news:C1823B76.4D1E6%dbowey(a)comcast.net...
> On 11/16/06 1:43 PM, in article
> dLednalCyqAORsHYnZ2dnUVZ8sudnZ2d(a)pipex.net,
> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
>> news:n1hol2h34lg57imeobnd9btu9e4dmabv9f(a)4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:27:00 -0800, Don Bowey <dbowey(a)comcast.net>
>>> Gave us:
>>>
>>>> On 11/15/06 7:28 PM, in article
>>>> limnl2114gmfvlaar0okbtbic645gcbuoc(a)4ax.com,
>>>> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:28:04 +0000, Eeyore
>>>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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 !
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Graham
>>>>>
>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> ADSL REQUIRES a minimum of an ISDN switched POTS line.
>>>>> That means that the customer's first switch has to be ISDN for his
>>>>> area to be an ASDL capable area. THEN his Plain Old Telephone Service
>>>>> line will do DSL.
>>>>
>>>> Wrong.
>>>>
>>>> An ISDN DSL is only two 64 kbit/s Bearer Channels and the 18 kbit/s
>>>> Data
>>>> Channel which is used for signaling, etc. An ADSL does not require
>>>> ISDN.
>>>
>>> What an ISDN switch house provides is the digital part. If there
>>> is no digital switch in the first leg of the system, the area is not
>>> capable of providing ADSL service.
>>
>> As always, you are wrong but continue to insist you are correct.
>>
> I suppose we could compare credentials, but I won't waste any more time
> with
> your ignorance.

Were you replying to me or to JoeBloe here?