Modern User-Friendly Technology

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:11:10 -0400, Stephen Rush Gave us:

It's that same goddamned landlord mentality that we originally left the brits to get away from, and it has managed to creep back in all over the f****ng country in various ways.

Goddamned attorneys charge to send you a fax.

Doctors that mill you into one of many offices and stop in for five minutes between other patients, and then charges the insurance company $100 a visit for having done NOTHING. God help anyone without insurance.

I used to get a $30 doctor visit, and if I needed an x-ray, it was the DOC taking me down to his basement and giving me one.

Doctors used to be satisfied with actually treating a group of folks they got to know. Now, they "like" the "new" "business model" that clinic style settings offer, and the care to the patient goes out the f****ng window. Good job, doc(s). You money grubbing hypocrites.

Power companies are found "criminally negligent" years ago, and yet no charges have been filed to date.

Landlords jack up rent every year without any laws to stop them, and realtors get too goddamned much when you sell your house.

Salesmen get way too f****ng much too. At least when the workers that are actually designing and putting the products together get next to nothing for orders of magnitude more work.

Fuck golf!

And the fucktard banks that USED to make their money off interests, now charge for every piddly little thing they can lay there "Bill Gates School of Suck Mo Cash" mentality filthy hands on. They are behind the property developers because after they suck away all the working folk's money, they all get to buy a new Cadillac with what they sucked out of our wallets.

Why does it typically require a minimum of two incomes to support a household these days?

Because we "globalized" the economy Americans have to take a step down on the ladder so some polynesian dude can have a DVD player in his hut?

The power company f****rs should get criminally cited if they were criminally negligent, goddamnit.

I get arrested for spitting gum on the sidewalk (never have spit gum), yet some white collar crimetard doesn't even cop a charge.

Too many snake oil hawking bastards in this country. We need a hazbrat team dispatched in.

I call bullshit.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:50:50 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) Gave us:

At which point, I would "modify" the architect. Maybe even "molest" the bastard.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:56:39 -0700, "Richard Crowley" Gave us:

Lizards... maybe.

Looked to me like SEVERAL ancient tribes were living here, and though some "warred" with each other, they didn't try to wipe 'em out.

I don't think anyone was here before them. The ansasi, but do not know what their demise was, nor whether it was at the hands of man or not.

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:41:33 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Brats? We don' need no stinkin' brats! We got our own stinkin' brats!

How predictable.

In message , Phat Bytestard writes

Doesn't have to be $100,000 either, HP, Dell, IBM all have companies who repair boards for them. HP regularly supply repaired boards for their authorised service centres. There is still a thriving repair business out there which replaces chips on boards.

You're right of course but your sights are a little high.

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Clint Sharp

Ah, why not have an ice-cold beer and rent "Falling Down"? You'll probably feel better.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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I like that movie... in fact I own a copy. Wouldn't you, just once, like to be able to get away with some of that stuff ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

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Not if they hitched a ride on a UFO. :-)

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Michael A. Terrell
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My favorite curse is: "You suffering son of a Siberian sheep shipper!"

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

In message , dated Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Michael A. Terrell writes

Like Ezekiel, you mean?

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2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely.

John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK

Over here we say the same about cars made in the US. Chevrolet is putting explicit 'Designed for europe' messages in their commercials for a good reason.

Over here a BMW is regarded a very high quality car that will last many years / kilometers.

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Or "Hudson and Landry", re: "The Lochness Monster" ;-)

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Since real smog controls didn't come in until the '74 model year, that '68 had what, a charcoal canister for fuel vapour and a PCV valve?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

True, but a camera chip doesn't have that same problem.

My cheap Dell lcd seems perfect, except where I squashed that bug. Older laptop screens seemed to have a bad pix or three, ogten bright, but yield seems to be improving.

John

Not on the ocean. The space between high tide and Japan is legally public.

John

It had an "air pump"... blew air into the exhaust manifold, right at the exhaust valves... a real joy in Arizona... burnt valves within two years.

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

ROFL! :-D

Got Pix?

Thanks! Rich

They'd probably get shut down by the deluge of traffic complaints.

Cheers! Rich

Nah, they just stuck a bunch of feathers to their arms with wax. Gotta be careful not to fly too close to the Sun, however! ;-)

Cheers! Rich