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From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 12:30 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455E85D8.E13F244(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> >> >>> There are people who do not know this stuff. If kids have >> >>> never handled money, have never been taught what money is, >> >>> how will they know that a dime is $.10? >> >> >> >>These things are taught in kindergarten. If a kid wasn't able to learn >> >>it >> >>then, s/he won't be able to learn it now. >> > >> > If people never use what they are taught in real life, they will >> > not know these details. >> >> If they never use it in real life, why do they need to learn it? Your >> claim >> that parents et al., all use swipe cards to make payments - why not >> accept >> that the days of cash are numbered and realise the kids don't need to >> learn >> it, they probably will never use it. > > I use cash fairly rarely these days. Same here. Buying the paper is about it. >> That said, I think you are talking nonsense. > > No surprise there. :-)
From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 12:34 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455E7778.528025DD(a)hotmail.com... > > > unsettled wrote: > >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > >> >>>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". > > COM is what they're called in DOS ! > > As in COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4. > > The parallel ports are LPT1, LPT2, LPT3 also see PRN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Com_port I am not sure what a computer guru like /BAH or her lapdog Unsettled thought a com port was...
From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 12:42 "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message news:o80tl2d7bpo9919u2296bvnom2h3mqgrq1(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:15:05 -0000, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us: > >> >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>news:ejk9op$8qk_001(a)s922.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>> In article <1163689355.822964.185390(a)k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, >>> |||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk wrote: >>>> >>>>So who are you then? >>> >>> My moniker is in some listings. JMF's is in all the listings. >>> >> >>Stop alluding then. Tell us. Listings of what? This is USENET, as it >>stands, >>based on your recent posts you are currently as believable as tj Frazir. >> > As if a twit like you, resting only one notch above TJ Frazir, could > judge anyone else. At least I, unlike you, am that one notch above Frazir. Even he laughs at your posts.
From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 12:43 "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message news:movsl2d4vgeql5obo47viq39ok1j56ig1e(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:20:50 +0000, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us: > >>How about you just take a look at when and why this terrorism started ? > > > You are obviously truly clueless as to the reference point for > either. Translating that from idiot into English and it should have read "I have nothing to defend my argument, so I will just insult and pretend I know what I am talking about." Well done Joe.
From: unsettled on 18 Nov 2006 13:08
T Wake wrote: > "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. No escape for Wake. |