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From: Chris Malcolm on 23 Feb 2010 06:36 In rec.photo.digital tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > After reading Bill's posts, one has to wonder how he remained employed > all those years. How could an employer deal with an employee with so > little ability to think and tears off on these wild rants all the > time? You think he's employed for his thinking skills? :-) -- Chris Malcolm
From: Bill Graham on 23 Feb 2010 19:40 "Chris Malcolm" <cam(a)holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message news:7uhsu5Fq22U2(a)mid.individual.net... > In rec.photo.digital tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >> After reading Bill's posts, one has to wonder how he remained employed >> all those years. How could an employer deal with an employee with so >> little ability to think and tears off on these wild rants all the >> time? > > You think he's employed for his thinking skills? :-) > > -- > Chris Malcolm I retired in August of 1996. When I did, my boss told me that I held the record for maximum overall production for his entire crew. I had been working in that department for 25 years....
From: RobertL on 1 Mar 2010 12:42 On Feb 9, 10:51 pm, LOL! <l...(a)lol.org> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:22:51 -0800, C J Campbell > > > > > > <christophercampbellremovet...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >On 2010-02-09 14:12:21 -0800, Jürgen Exner <jurge...(a)hotmail.com> said: > > >> C J Campbell <christophercampbellremovet...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> Either that or their own tax-hungry governments think they are. America > >>> has no VAT. > > >> 1: Canada does have VAT, it is called "Goods and Services Tax". Don't > >> know about other countries in America. > >> 2: I am quite certain I prefer a flat simple straightforward VAT over > >> the impenetrable jungle of local, state, county and other sales taxes > >> that are slapped on in the US and sometimes vary just across the street. > >> 3: Not to mention that VAT is refundable upon export of the good while > >> sales tax is not. > > >> jue > > >If you like this oppressive, extremely regressive tax, fine with me. > >I'll give it a pass, thank you. And don't complain to me about how your > >stuff costs more. > > Yes. Let's all blame their respective governments on why $25 of labor, > glass, metal, and cheap plastics costs $2000. presumably there were a few design costs as well. Robert
From: Bill Graham on 1 Mar 2010 14:02 "RobertL" <robertmlaws(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bb96e9f2-bf9a-4617-9241-1b8109691b14(a)e7g2000yqf.googlegroups.com... On Feb 9, 10:51 pm, LOL! <l...(a)lol.org> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:22:51 -0800, C J Campbell > > > > > > <christophercampbellremovet...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >On 2010-02-09 14:12:21 -0800, J�rgen Exner <jurge...(a)hotmail.com> said: > > >> C J Campbell <christophercampbellremovet...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> Either that or their own tax-hungry governments think they are. > >>> America > >>> has no VAT. > > >> 1: Canada does have VAT, it is called "Goods and Services Tax"...... They always think up these neat names. I wonder why they don't tell the truth, and call it the, "We love to spend other people's money tax"?
From: Walter Banks on 1 Mar 2010 16:12
"LOL!" wrote: > Yes. Let's all blame their respective governments on why $25 of labor, > glass, metal, and cheap plastics costs $2000. Engineer me up a DSLR I will give you a full $50 for the labor, glass, metal, and cheap plastics. 18Gpixel, shutter life at least 100K operations. w.. |