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From: JoeBloe on 20 Nov 2006 18:12 On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:42:05 -0000, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us: > >"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. > You're an idiot. He can't even spell the words laugh, your, or post, much less know what they mean.
From: JoeBloe on 20 Nov 2006 18:15 On 20 Nov 2006 02:40:29 -0800, |||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk Gave us: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> 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. > >On that basis BAH = Barb Huizenga of the DEC PDP-10 TOPS group then. >(isn't the WWW amazing!) > >And your knowledge of computing seems to have stagnated about two >decades ago. > >Seriously you should buy a new computer and enter the twenty-first >century. They are consumer items now and (by comparison with Win 3.xx) >relatively trouble free. > >Regards, >Martin Brown One could likely buy a machine, boot knoppix (or the like), and emulate the DEC PDP-10 machine in a VmWare window.
From: Eeyore on 20 Nov 2006 18:21 Lloyd Parker wrote: > In article <ejs81b$8qk_001(a)s952.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >In article <ejr4o4$k7c$3(a)blue.rahul.net>, > > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >>In article <ejhpc1$8qk_001(a)s938.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > >>>In article <ejckm3$mf9$1(a)blue.rahul.net>, > >>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >>>>In article <ejcg0c$8ss_016(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > >>>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > >>>>[.....] > >>>>>I see the consequences just fine. Forcing, by law, everyone > >>>>>to have insurance is the latest idiocy. > >>>> > >>>>If you are going to have an insurance based system and not let the dead > >>>>bodies of those without insurance clutter the streets, you really need to > >>>>make sure everyone has insurance. If you don't then an irresponsible > >>>>fraction of society can become a burden on the rest. > >>> > >>>The same problems will still exist. > >> > >>No, the irresponsible people will not longer be a burden. > >> > >> > >>> So everybody has a piece > >>>of paper that says "insurance". That will not create any > >>>infrastructure needed to deliver the services. > >> > >>Agreed but if you wish to hang onto an insurance based system rather than > >>a NHS like system, this is a completely seperate problem. > > > >I don't want either. Insurance should be only for extraordinary > >circumstances. Instead what we have is a "insurance" that is > >expected to pay for everything. As a result, it does pay for > >everything and becomes a Ponzi scheme. > > > > My employer offers both -- an insurance plan with low premiums and very high > deductibles and copays (and so for extraordinary circumstances) and one with > higher premiums and lower deductibles anc copays (and thus pays for more > routine things). Choice is good. But is the low premium version a good idea ? It seems my freind likely had one of these that meant he had to pay 75% of the prescrition cost that meant he couldn't afford the 'better' asthma drug for his wife. Graham
From: Eeyore on 20 Nov 2006 18:22 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > I have > replacement windows. This means that a frame and window was > built inside the house's window frame. The last wind storm > had two of them providing very fresh air into the house. So > I expended five caulk containers on the outside and took > the windows apart to the point that the gaps between the > two frames were exposed. I then stuffed more of that sponge > stuff around the inner frame. > > The traffic is not as loud as it was. They were incompetently fitted in that case. Graham
From: Eeyore on 20 Nov 2006 18:24
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > > >> So everybody has a piece > >>of paper that says "insurance". That will not create any > >>infrastructure needed to deliver the services. > > > >Agreed but if you wish to hang onto an insurance based system rather than > >a NHS like system, this is a completely seperate problem. > > I don't want either. Insurance should be only for extraordinary > circumstances. Instead what we have is a "insurance" that is > expected to pay for everything. As a result, it does pay for > everything and becomes a Ponzi scheme. On the second point I can see how insurance can encourage waste and overcharging but what's wrong with the NHS type scheme ? Graham |