From: Ben Newsam on 18 Nov 2006 09:31 On Sat, 18 Nov 06 12:52:36 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >There are a few British businesses who bought US companies >and skimmed the cash out. The corruption is not a US >invention. That's not corruption, that's capitalism.
From: jmfbahciv on 18 Nov 2006 09:59 In article <v86ul2ptr7oev3a76fe96hb720ak07hlmq(a)4ax.com>, Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >On Sat, 18 Nov 06 12:52:36 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>There are a few British businesses who bought US companies >>and skimmed the cash out. The corruption is not a US >>invention. > >That's not corruption, that's capitalism. I see. If the UK does it, it's capitalism; if the US does it, it's corruption. That makes sense within the context of this thread. /BAH
From: unsettled on 18 Nov 2006 10:10 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <88717$455dddd0$4fe7798$2705(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>>In article <455C9BC9.30B08330(a)hotmail.com>, >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>>>I don't have a com port. >>>> >>>>On a 486 ? You normally have 2. What does your modem connect to ? >>>> >>>>That would be astonishingly unusual ! Where does the mouse go ? >>> >>> >>>Serial ports. >> >>It seems to have begun with some terminals which labelled >>their RS232 ports with the logo "com". > > > Oh, I see. I never considered series nor parallel ports as > "comm ports". Smaller words.......
From: unsettled on 18 Nov 2006 10:27 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <455DDC87.ECA201D3(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>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"? >>> >>>This one seems to have a 2-day incubation period and lasts 5-6 days; >>>I won't know the latter until I'm over it. I'm assuming a week. >>>That means the course is 9 days; multiply it by 8 which gives 72 days. >>>That means that I won't be over this one until February. Great. >> >>Why do you need to multiply it by 8 ? > > > If I'm afflicted with a virus, I have the illness 8 times, AFAICT. > It may be more but the symptoms become part of the background noise > of the usual symptoms I have every day. Sorry to hear that. Do you think it possible that once you bring an infection home your environment keeps reinfecting you?
From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 12:05
"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455EF19C.FD6B2691(a)hotmail.com... > > > unsettled wrote: > >> T Wake wrote: >> >> > I have been to the doctor in past, unwell, the doctor has treated me >> > and I >> > was well again. Once more unsettled is simply wrong. >> >> A person is never quite as well as they were before the illness. > > Even if it's minor ? > > Say a skin rash. It is still irrelevant. I never said "as well as before" so his pedantry here is misplaced. |