From: unsettled on
Don Bowey trolled:

> On 11/16/06 7:30 PM, in article 90809$455d2cc1$4fe45a8$30258(a)DIALUPUSA.NET,
> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Don Bowey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Life's too short to not have a car you love, or not have excellent wine and
>>>beer nearby.
>>
>>I guess they're acceptable substitutes for
>>intelligence in your case.
>
>
> Piffle!
>
BAH was right, you fools can't even flame worth a damn.
From: unsettled on
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
>>In article <455A1B5B.2D136E5(a)earthlink.net>,
>> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>unsettled wrote:
>>>
>>>>What's not discussed in this thread is the fact that
>>>>the manufacturers have been advertising on US TV for
>>>>some time now that if you can't afford the medicines
>>>>you need you should contact them because they have
>>>>programs to assist those living in poverty needing
>>>>their products.
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you ever tried to qualify someone for free drugs? Every one
>>>I've tried to help was denied.
>>
>>Were there different reasons or did they tend to be the same reason?
>>If the same, can you say what it was?
>>
>>/BAH
>
>
>
> The only feedback I got was that they were denied. My part of the
> outreach program was as an unpaid IT department, but in these cases I
> tracked down the websites and printed out all the forms and
> instructions. I had more medical problems before they were rejected, and
> someone else took over trying to help them. I am still trying to get my
> blood sugar back where it belongs, but in a month's time it shot up from
> normal, to 495. I haven't been able to go back and work since then. :(
>
>

What do you weigh?

From: T Wake on

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
news:inqql2hnpth720hefaq42m6f4neqd410vh(a)4ax.com...
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:43:42 -0000, "T Wake"
> <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:
>
>>
>>"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.
>>
> So, it is your contention that ADSL works on non-digitally switched
> hardware?

Not at all. Is it your contention that an ISDN line must be in place prior
to ADSL?


From: Eeyore on


JoeBloe wrote:

> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:
> >"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
> >> Don Bowey <dbowey(a)comcast.net> Gave us:
> >>>"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:
> >>>> 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.
>
> So, it is your contention that ADSL works on non-digitally switched
> hardware?

No-one contended that !

I originally said that ADSL comes down an ordinary twisted pair telephone line.
Which it does. I have it working right here.

The DSLAM is at the exchange. DSL = digital subscriber line.

If you guys want to do it differently in the USA that's fine.

Graham


From: Eeyore on


JoeBloe wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
> >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >> "Don Bowey" <dbowey(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
> >>
> >> > As I recall, the pollution controls began being enforced about 1970. By
> >> > the end of the decade the air was much cleaner.
> >>
> >> And not coincidentally, since US sales accounted for the majority of MG
> >> sales, they went under essentially at the end of the decade of the 70s.
> >
> >Eh ?
>
> Austin-Healey, right? No, they didn't go under.

They just stopped making them.


> The word for today is :
>
> * * * S P R I D G E T * * *

Eh ?

Actually I was talking about MG and they didn't go down until a couple of years
ago.

http://www.mg-rover.com/static/index.html

Graham