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In article 4f2c0467.141281750@localhost,
Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? -- *The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article 4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16 |
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wrote: In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article 4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. Look at what is happening to pensions in the UK now so many employers have pulled out of providing them without choice to their employees. Take our former industry, Charles. At one time the majority working in it were staff and could look forward to a company pension. This is not the case now, and many industries are the same. In a few years time perhaps the majority will only have a sate pension plus any savings to live on. Because they have been given the choice, and chose to have jam now. I'm glad I won't be around to see it. -- *Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , charles wrote: In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article 4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? no, just let the state learn from the private sector work out how to make it more efficiently. -- From KT24 Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16 |
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charles wrote: No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? no, just let the state learn from the private sector work out how to make it more efficiently. RBS. I rest my case. And countless insurance companies have gone bust over the years. -- *If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 03/02/2012 16:37, charles wrote:
In , Dave Plowman wrote: In article4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) Which is why private companies are essential to bridge the gap. -- Moving things in still pictures |
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On 03/02/2012 17:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , wrote: No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? no, just let the state learn from the private sector work out how to make it more efficiently. RBS. I rest my case. And countless insurance companies have gone bust over the years. Countless! Absolute ********. Still it's a funny world, isn't it, the RBS on a one off got the same support that the NHS gets on a permanent basis. Still, only Ł12billion for their failed computer operation - which will be blamed on someone else, of course. -- Moving things in still pictures |
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:18:21 +0000, Andy Champ
wrote: There is no victim in looking at any image - if he believes there are ... why are they a 'victim' and what are they a 'victim' of? In that particular case, and with some images the harm is done to the subject of the picture when it is originally produced, not when it is viewed. It is the aim of the legislation to destroy the market for such images. Whether it will work is another matter. That may be so, but it does not mean that the viewing of images has created any victim of itself. -- Cynic |
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In article , ŽiŠardo
scribeth thus On 03/02/2012 17:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In , wrote: No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? no, just let the state learn from the private sector work out how to make it more efficiently. RBS. I rest my case. And countless insurance companies have gone bust over the years. Countless! Absolute ********. Still it's a funny world, isn't it, the RBS on a one off got the same support that the NHS gets on a permanent basis. Still, only Ł12billion for their failed computer operation - which will be blamed on someone else, of course. Talking of the NHS I see that Hinchingbrooke hospital in Huntingdon has just appointed a private company to run it. They have to cope with being saddled with a Ł38 odd mill debt. Be interesting to see what they can do with it all.. Not 'agin state operation just that from most all I've seen of it its not that efficient and usually rather wasteful.. Not that private operation is perfect but they usually have the opportunity of going bust;!.. -- Tony Sayer |
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:29 +0000 (GMT) Charles wrote :
no, just let the state learn from the private sector work out how to make it more efficiently. My health insurer will pay $150 (Ł100) for dental work without question. Guess how much a clean, scrape and polish costs. The InsCo doesn't ca it just factors the cost into the premiums, same as in the UK with whiplash claims. -- Tony Bryer, Greentram: 'Software to build on', Melbourne, Australia www.greentram.com |
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On Feb 3, 4:23*pm, (Cynic) wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:57:37 -0800 (PST), Ste wrote: Seeing myself as being both a consumer and a producer, it is obvious that in general I want some sort of balance between the two. And even as the builder, I don't really want individual consumers to be stung with covering the full cost of my family emergency. But clearly I want some general power to take time off to deal with irregular emergencies, without total collapse of my lifestyle and reduction to penury. Can you not see that for a great many employers, paying an extra salary every month to someone who does not actually do any work can be just as devastating, and could easily result in bankruptcy for the employer? *That would especially be the case if such a thing became law, because for every genuine case there would bound to be several chancers who did not *really* have to stay at home as a carer. Indeed, so once again the answer is to distribute that cost more widely than either individual consumers or individual (small) employers. The buffer has to be built somewhere into the system. In the post-war period, that was somewhat achieved by having a system of contributory and earnings-linked state benefits. If money were to be taken from someone (I suspect you would like it to come from myself and other taxpayers) to pay for you to look after a disabled relative, how about a situation in which your partner leaves you or dies and you are left literally holding the baby? *You will have to find a way to care for your infant in that situation. Indeed, and in many cases that is achieved by recourse to state benefits. I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. *The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. But that simply presupposes that there are systematically such non- working friends and relatives available. It doesn't matter which way you look at it - somewhere in the system, there has to be a sufficient reserve of time/labour, to cope with irregular but highly-demanding emergencies. In the past women as a class fulfilled that function to a large extent, where even if their domestic duties were far more demanding than today, those duties were significantly more flexible than formal employment. *The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Indeed, but if the insurance cover is discretionary (as opposed to compulsory), then, amongst other things, that carries problems with individuals opting-out, particularly due to strained economic circumstances and competitive social pressures - the very sorts of circumstances where such insurance might be most necessary and desirable from a social point of view, but where individuals acting individually are most likely to take risks in opting-out. It also carries the problem of adverse selection, where individuals are likely to pay into such policies only when they are most likely to need the cover, and therefore the premium will be most unaffordable, as opposed to if the same premium had been spread over their entire working lives. In the presence of perfect foresight on everybody's part, people would only choose to buy an insurance policy immediately before the adverse event, and the premium demanded by the insurer would carry the same cost as the adverse event itself. That would subvert the whole point of the insurance in the first place, which was to spread large and irregular costs, across society and across time (including, to some extent, the time period *after* the adverse event). The reason for doing this is so that individuals do not become 'total losses' in insurance parlance, bearing in mind their social and economic value to society at large. The traditional economics assumption that individuals who take bad decisions will be 'driven from the market', often fails to appreciate the systemic importance of not allowing individuals to drive themselves from the market, nor allowing them to make extremely bad decisions and then attempting to hold them to the fatal consequences and trying to force them from the market when they decide that they do not want to leave after all. I can't help viewing the recent worldwide economic troubles as being a somewhat more general example of what I'm talking about. With Greece, for example, permitting them to accrue unmanageable levels of debt, and then attempting to extract that money on terms that will lead to the failure of their state, is inevitably going to lead to default anyway, but not without imposing a heavy burden of international tension (with the tension proportional to the ferocity of the attempt to extract repayment of the debt instead of allowing immediate default). It is easy to declare in retrospect, that prudence would have demanded that these loans were never made to the Greeks in the first place, even if they demanded them and were willing to accept them. That sort of dynamic is exactly what contributed to World War 2, where runaway competition amongst imperial powers, and the imposition of harsh consequences on the losers, only led to a renegotiation of terms later and regulation of international competition, but not before hundreds of millions of people were killed or psychologically maimed, and trillions of pounds of economic capital had been lost. I would also point out that, fundamentally, the idea that consequences should follow the choices, is often only an ideological commitment. It does not follow in any natural way, that the repayment of a debt should follow the consumption of the borrowings. You can quite easily take the money, and then refuse to repay. Honesty and credit- worthiness is a pretense that can be discarded, if the circumstances demand it. And if for whatever reason you have made a bad bargain, and the consequences (if accepted) are now fatal (metaphorically, if not literally), then there is going to be a strong temptation to renegotiate or default. For, if the creditor were your friend, then he would not have accepted the bargain, and certainly he would not hold you to its harsh terms now having seen how events had unfolded. And if he is not your friend but your red-in-tooth-and-claw competitor, then you owe him nothing anyway, and there is no reason to abide by the rules of the competition anymore. The smart creditor does not enter into such arrangements, because the punishment of a defaulting debtor is extremely expensive in terms of both the forfeit of the loan and the additional conflict generated by the punishment. In any society that relies on a degree of trust, cooperation, and willing adherence to common ideology, you cannot afford to be an irresponsible creditor in general, because in the end you'll probably lose not only your own capital, but even more certainly everyone will lose the benefits derived from trust, cooperation, and willing adherence to common ideology. |
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On 03/02/2012 16:23, Cynic wrote:
Can you not see that for a great many employers, paying an extra salary every month to someone who does not actually do any work can be just as devastating, and could easily result in bankruptcy for the employer? That would especially be the case if such a thing became law, because for every genuine case there would bound to be several chancers who did not*really* have to stay at home as a carer. IF such a thing became law? Have you ever looked at the rights for pregnant women? Andy |
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On 01/02/2012 13:27, Cynic wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:29:48 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Good for you. But have you had to juggle normal life and caring for someone 24/7. I can say that I have not first hand, but certainly second hand. Even caring for my family when my wife was ill (not requiring 24/7 care) was enough to lose me my employment and saddle me with massive debts which I am now working extended hours to clear. A couple more months and we would have lost our home. Why should that situation be anyone's problem apart from you, your friends and your family? When my wife was in a similar situation, it would certainly have caused me just as much hardship as it did you *if* I had provided all the necessary care personally. There were however plenty of friends and family members who between them were able and willing to provide the additional necessary care without significant detriment to themselves. The idea that complete strangers had any sort of duty to solve the problem by paying for her care did not even cross my mind. My wife's family is from Ireland, she has no family over here (her parents moved here before she was born and have now died) and we couldn't really expect her extended family to come and live here for a very extended period. My parents are well into their seventies and certainly couldn't help her up and down the stairs or grab her when she moved and her balance went; or look after our three young kids for extended periods over many, many months. All our friends are in full time work or live many miles away. No, I am not making up a scenario here, this is simply the case. SteveW |
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On 03/02/2012 16:56, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , charles wrote: In , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. Look at what is happening to pensions in the UK now so many employers have pulled out of providing them without choice to their employees. You don't have to take the risk to get caught out. I had insurances that paid most of my commitments, but they generally only last one year (and even that is very expensive) - our wonderful NHS bounced my wife around various consultants and tests, with long waits for each, for two and a half years before they diagnosed her condition. Total time being seen or tested during that time, less than a day, discounting waiting. Along the way, one consultant stated that he didn't know what the problem was, but could take away the symptoms - he "offered" and then pushed for my wife to let him permanently blind her in her left eye! In the end it turned out to be a problem that could be alleviated with medication. Two things would have saved my employment - a more flexible employer (working reduced hours for reduced pay, but at least still working or very flexible hours) or the NHS seeing people in a reasonable time (measured from GP referral to diagnosis, rather than separate times for each re-referral). My wife happens to work in the NHS and I know that she has referred patients for treatments that will sort their problems out, only for the budget committee to decide to send them for a cheaper option, that they know will not work, but will push the problem out of this year's budget! These are mental health patients, with severe conditions and by extending their illnesses in this way, they and their families are badly damaged and the total cost to the economy is increased ... but that's from "different" pots, so doesn't matter! SteveW |
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On 01/02/2012 13:37, Cynic wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:32:34 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Wrong. Taking the property of an innocent man because you are acting on *rumour* is still theft. In your scenario, the *thief* is still a thief, even if by mistake, while my uncle was quite clearly an innocent victim. Similarly, beating up an innocent person because you *think* he is a thief is still GBH. "Think" is not the right word and neither is "innocent". There's a big difference between "suspecting" that someone has your stolen tools and having actually seen him take them from your vehicle and make off with them! SteveW |
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On 01/02/2012 12:39, dennis@home wrote:
"Ste" wrote in message ... 8 How does the driver know what he can ignore it if he doesn't see it? Because he can ignore the object based on its position in the visual field - and also whether the object is moving. Like I said how can he know if he hasn't seen it. It isn't even above and to the left when he is a few cars length away and he should be looking that far ahead to be safe. Because most of the brains visual system works subconsciously. The brain is incapable of taking in and processing all the imformation that it is bombarded with, so it notes those of importance and ignores others. The driver *will* see the speed camera, but may only process it as an inanimate object that he in not going to hit and that is not going to hit him, without ever consciously recognising what it actually is. Interesting things don't normally happen off to the left above head- height, even less so when those things are not moving into the path of the vehicle, and so where there is excessive demand for visual processing, that capacity will be allocated to certain areas that have, by experience, been found to be the places where interesting things happen. Like in the road in front of you where all gatso cameras have white lines painted? Gatsos do, others don't. I would not have come to that verdict and the coroner should be re-educated as it was obviously poor driving. No, it was intentional on the part of the agency that installed the speed camera, that the driver should have reacted in that way - that he should have devoted more attention to his speed, and therefore necessarily less attention to anything else. The driver should always be aware of his speed and the limit. If he can not do so while still paying attention to other things he is not capable of driving safely and will have an accident. The case you quote proves this to be true. All drivers are human. Even if they know the limit and are within it, they still have momentary doubts and check again. If you can't take in all the information that you need to drive safely then you are driving too fast for your abilities! This is where people like yourself wander off into fantasy land. No driver can take in all the information at all times that they need to drive "safely" in all possible circumstances. Then they shouldn't drive in those circumstances. Then no person at all should ever be allowed to drive. That's the way human brains are constructed and we're stuck with it. Even people on foot, moving by definition at walking pace, manage to fall off kerbs into traffic, or even simply walk straight into traffic, or even fall down uncovered manholes. They don't have to pass a test to show they are competent. Competent, does not and can not mean perfect. You also missed out falling through manhole covers which is what happened to me. In the end, people like yourself hold drivers to impossibly high standards simply because you don't like cars and want to drive them off the roads, not because you have any legitimate safety (or otherwise humanistic) agenda. When drivers react adversely to your ploys, as the driver clearly did in this case, you use that to try to argue for further restrictions, when in fact it was the restriction that worsened road safety in the first place. It was poor driving, plain and simple. If it were the case that the camera did cause the crash then how come nearly every other driver can manage to drive past it without problems. Because every driver and the information presented to them will be different, different people, different cars, clouds, lighting, noise, animals, even leaves on trees and everyone is processing it differently. A particular distraction (in this case a camera) might only distract one in a million, but if you ran it all again, it could be a different driver that was distracted and on a different day. This is not a nice simple Newtonian system where everything runs a perfect, preset course. IME the biggest problem with cameras is that the speeders see them and then jump on the brakes to about 5-10 mph below the limit. They don't spend lots of time looking at their speedo so that they run into an object in the road. The problem is easily solved by hiding the cameras. I've pointed out myself before now that the prevalence of red-light cameras in particular (and combined speed/red-light cameras), simply means that I have now reallocated attention away from checking the junction and road ahead (including the behaviour of pedestrians at any associated crossings), to carefully scanning the side of the road for the presence of a camera whilst actively inhibiting my desire to accelerate, and being braced for an emergency stop on a much more cautionary basis than usual. Why, if you are driving legally there is no need to worry about the cameras. There are millions of drivers who don't have a problem with cameras because they don't speed and don't try to jump amber lights. When the lights suddenly change to amber and you are close, there is always a moment where you have to decide is it safer to stop quickly or continue through. That is why amber means "stop, only if it is safe to do so." I personally don't have a problem with the idea of red light cameras, as they are sensibly adjusted so that someone misjudging slightly and going through a little late won't be caught, but someone blatently forcing their way through red will. Hidden cameras would remove the drivers that do have a problem with speeding and jumping lights. Anyone can get the speed limit wrong, such as missing the signs because of parked vehicles totally obscuring them - probably why some people hit the brakes when they see a camera and they have a moment of self-doubt. In your world, they'd be punished for no fault of their own. No one can be blamed for not seeing a sign that someone has parked a truck in front of or are you only going to allow drivers with X-ray vision? And before you say it, I have seen (or rather not) two signs that I knew were there only because it was a familiar road, each completely concealed by a 7.5 tonner (one parked on the left, one stationary in traffic on the right) If a pedestrian then steps out and gets run down, then that is the choice that people like yourself have made - you can't have my attention allocated to both tasks, because I do not have enough of it to allocate to all possible factors, You are driving beyond you abilities then. You need to slow down and stop being an idiot. Even at walking pace, pedestrians bump into things. No-one can take in all the information and use it. They can only take what they subconciously recognise as the most important bits and most of the time they are right. Once in a while everyone over-prioritizes one piece of information to the detriment of another - most of the time they get away with it. Most of the time they will never even know. If you drove to work today, I can absolutely guarantee that you missed some things. Some of those won't have mattered, but some might have if the circumstances had been slightly different. Today you were lucky. You may well be for the rest of your life, but if not, then that is just bad luck, because you're made just like everyone else. and you've made it clear by installing a camera and imposing draconian penalties, that you want my attention to be focussed first and foremost on maintaining a lower speed, and stopping earlier at the amber, than I would otherwise choose to do without the presence of the camera. I haven't, I would hide them. However I can't see why they are a problem to anyone who knows how to drive properly. According to what you have stated however, a driver who had spotted the pedestrian and given full attention to avoiding hitting that pedestrian, but who had not spotted the bright yellow camera would be a worse driver. Yes, he would have been a worse driver than one that didn't need to worry about the speed camera because he knew how fast he was going and what the speed limit was. You would be amazed at how easy that is. Drivers like yourself (I assume you are a driver in the first place) are simply dickheads. The fact is, most of us do not spend all our time on the roads monitoring speed limits and our compliance with them - even by your own logic, it is easier to observe the speed camera and make a temporary adjustment of speed, than to observe every change of posted limit and keep one's speed constantly in accordance with that limit. I don't have a problem with knowing how fats I am going or what the limit is. And if the lamposts in a village are just above or just below the required distance apart? Could be NSL or could be 30. Admittedly unusual, you'd expect terminal signs, but as I've shown earlier, these can be totally hidden. I don't see why another driver should either. If they do then they have a problem with their ability and need to address it by either getting better or by changing how they drive. If that means they have to drive at 20 mph then so be it. And contrary to what you imply, knowing how fast you are going and what the posted limit is, is a significant intellectual task, demanding both careful visual observation and memory capacity (and therefore require compensation by demonstrating a lower standard of overall driving skill and progress, or by a reduced amount of stamina for driving due to the high intellectual demands of your driving behaviour - or even possibly both of these). Balls, its insignificant effort. It would be if roads were designed correctly. A European study criticised the UK's roads some years ago, as many were designed for higher speeds than the limits then set on them. This unconciously caused drivers to exceeed the posted speed limits or concentrate more of their effort into keeping their speed down - to the detriment of concentation of everything else around them! This was a major study of roads throughout Europe. SteveW |
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On 02/02/2012 12:15, dennis@home wrote:
"Ste" wrote in message ... The fact is, the mental resources required to monitor and maintain one's compliance with speed limits, has to met from a necessarily limited supply of those resources. There will *always* be situations where circumstances are such that the full extent of potentially relevant sensory information overwhelms your ability to process it all, If that is the case you are driving at an unsafe speed. Why do you have a problem realising that it is not good driving to ignore information just so you can drive faster? You're saying that as if someone is choosing to ignore information. They are not. All human brains ignore information automatically, as they cannot cope with it all - even at rest! Look straight ahead. Now look quickly to your right. You saw a continuous moving scene didn't you? Well no, you didn't. You saw ahead of you and to your right, but while you were turning you actually saw nothing for a moment, then your brain went back and filled in a memory of what it thought you "ought" to have seen. That is the way our brains work and part of what I have said elsewhere about information we can take in. SteveW |
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"Steve Walker" wrote in message ... On 02/02/2012 12:15, dennis@home wrote: "Ste" wrote in message ... The fact is, the mental resources required to monitor and maintain one's compliance with speed limits, has to met from a necessarily limited supply of those resources. There will *always* be situations where circumstances are such that the full extent of potentially relevant sensory information overwhelms your ability to process it all, If that is the case you are driving at an unsafe speed. Why do you have a problem realising that it is not good driving to ignore information just so you can drive faster? You're saying that as if someone is choosing to ignore information. They are not. All human brains ignore information automatically, as they cannot cope with it all - even at rest! Look straight ahead. Now look quickly to your right. You saw a continuous moving scene didn't you? Well no, you didn't. You saw ahead of you and to your right, but while you were turning you actually saw nothing for a moment, then your brain went back and filled in a memory of what it thought you "ought" to have seen. That is the way our brains work and part of what I have said elsewhere about information we can take in. We all know, or should know, about the little tricks the human systems do. That doesn't mean you can't avoid them by thinking. I will state again, if you don't have enough time to analyze what you need to be able to see when driving then you are driving too fast. If you get caught on a speed camera it is not the cameras fault, you just aren't as good a driver as you think you are. |
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On 04/02/2012 02:21, Steve Walker wrote:
On 01/02/2012 13:37, Cynic wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:32:34 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Wrong. Taking the property of an innocent man because you are acting on *rumour* is still theft. In your scenario, the *thief* is still a thief, even if by mistake, while my uncle was quite clearly an innocent victim. Similarly, beating up an innocent person because you *think* he is a thief is still GBH. "Think" is not the right word and neither is "innocent". There's a big difference between "suspecting" that someone has your stolen tools and having actually seen him take them from your vehicle and make off with them! SteveW Not if you're a pedant! -- Moving things in still pictures |
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On 03/02/2012 16:56, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , charles wrote: In , Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? It already IS compulsory, unless you can tell us how to opt out of NI payments on income. The reason that it's such a bloody mess is that there's no incentive to make it work properly as it's far easier just to sting taxpayers for more. Things are highly unlikely to get worse if the cold dead hand of the state is taken out of the equation. The State Pension, for example, is based on no sound economic principle, just sheer stupidity and money wasting rather than the use of actuarial principles. The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. Look at what is happening to pensions in the UK now so many employers have pulled out of providing them without choice to their employees. Take our former industry, Charles. At one time the majority working in it were staff and could look forward to a company pension. This is not the case now, and many industries are the same. Hmm, something to do the ongoing Ł5billion a year theft from what were, previously, viable schemes. the majority will only have a sate pension plus any savings to live on. Because they have been given the choice, and chose to have jam now. I'm glad I won't be around to see it. That "jam" has already been taken - due to the abolition of ACT - for political reasons and the "restructuring" of society. -- Moving things in still pictures |
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ŽiŠardo wrote: No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? It already IS compulsory, unless you can tell us how to opt out of NI payments on income. Quite. So replacing it with a private scheme will be of no use unless it is compulsory to have cover. Leave it up to the individual, and too many will decide against. After all, youngsters live for ever. ;-) The reason that it's such a bloody mess is that there's no incentive to make it work properly as it's far easier just to sting taxpayers for more. Things are highly unlikely to get worse if the cold dead hand of the state is taken out of the equation. Wish I had your confidence it would get better. If you look at the US health insurance, they pay approximately 3 times per head that the NHS costs us - and although it may work well for the rich, it certainly doesn't for the poor. The State Pension, for example, is based on no sound economic principle, just sheer stupidity and money wasting rather than the use of actuarial principles. What do you mean by that? The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. Look at what is happening to pensions in the UK now so many employers have pulled out of providing them without choice to their employees. Take our former industry, Charles. At one time the majority working in it were staff and could look forward to a company pension. This is not the case now, and many industries are the same. Hmm, something to do the ongoing Ł5billion a year theft from what were, previously, viable schemes. So there will be no 'theft' from private schemes in the way of profits and charges? You must live in a different world... the majority will only have a sate pension plus any savings to live on. Because they have been given the choice, and chose to have jam now. I'm glad I won't be around to see it. That "jam" has already been taken - due to the abolition of ACT - for political reasons and the "restructuring" of society. ACT? -- *Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 05/02/2012 10:20, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In , wrote: No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? It already IS compulsory, unless you can tell us how to opt out of NI payments on income. Quite. So replacing it with a private scheme will be of no use unless it is compulsory to have cover. Leave it up to the individual, and too many will decide against. After all, youngsters live for ever. ;-) The reason that it's such a bloody mess is that there's no incentive to make it work properly as it's far easier just to sting taxpayers for more. Things are highly unlikely to get worse if the cold dead hand of the state is taken out of the equation. Wish I had your confidence it would get better. If you look at the US health insurance, they pay approximately 3 times per head that the NHS costs us - and although it may work well for the rich, it certainly doesn't for the poor. The State Pension, for example, is based on no sound economic principle, just sheer stupidity and money wasting rather than the use of actuarial principles. What do you mean by that? The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. Look at what is happening to pensions in the UK now so many employers have pulled out of providing them without choice to their employees. Take our former industry, Charles. At one time the majority working in it were staff and could look forward to a company pension. This is not the case now, and many industries are the same. Hmm, something to do the ongoing Ł5billion a year theft from what were, previously, viable schemes. So there will be no 'theft' from private schemes in the way of profits and charges? You must live in a different world... Thank you for summing up a typical Socialist viewpoint where "profit" is synonymous with "theft" in your dictionary. However, without such profit, and the tax paid on it, there would be no State! This could well explain the unlimited "success" of the Cuban, East German and Bulgarian economies, to name but a few. The UK's financial and professional services generated a trade surplus for the British economy of Ł40billion in 2010, whilst the financial services employ 1.9 million people, of whom more than two-thirds work outside London. Taxation imposed on the sector was Ł63billion - which equates to 12% of all Government tax receipts - this is more than the budget of the Department for Education. Without success such as this we could not afford to have a Department of Education and many other things besides. What is your suggestion - that we print more money instead? I find the it interesting, given the initial total opposition of the medical profession to the proposed NHS, that they can have their views so comprehensively changed by just by having oodles of public money just thrown at them, regardless of any efficiency in the process, or the outcome. the majority will only have a sate pension plus any savings to live on. Because they have been given the choice, and chose to have jam now. I'm glad I won't be around to see it. That "jam" has already been taken - due to the abolition of ACT - for political reasons and the "restructuring" of society. ACT? Advance Corporation Tax. -- Moving things in still pictures |
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ŽiŠardo wrote: Thank you for summing up a typical Socialist viewpoint where "profit" is synonymous with "theft" in your dictionary. Just responding to your typical moronic right wing view that all taxation is theft. -- *No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,purple Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 05/02/2012 12:35, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In articlevoednUmuF6ix7rPSnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d@giganews. com, wrote: Thank you for summing up a typical Socialist viewpoint where "profit" is synonymous with "theft" in your dictionary. Just responding to your typical moronic right wing view that all taxation is theft. No, I leave the moronic statements to you, as you obviously have lots of experience in that respect, e.g: "And countless insurance companies have gone bust over the years." First define "countless" and then name five in the last ten years. |
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:32:03 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote: In article 4f2c0467.141281750@localhost, Cynic wrote: I see two perfectly reasonable solutions. The first is as I mentioned - friends and relatives who do not work step in and help. The second is for you to take out insurance to cover the possibility that you will have to give up work due to your own or someone else's disability. Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? That is indeed what it is *supposed* to do. Unfortunately the NI pot is too tempting for governments to dip into - as are all other supposedly special-purpose taxes such as road tax etc. -- Cynic |
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:56:43 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote: Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? That's how car insurance works, so I don't see why not. The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. In which case if it *does* happen to them, they will have to make alternative arrangements along the lines I have already mentioned. There are no doubt a high proportion of people who will decide that they do not *need* such insurance because they have sufficient family and friends who could step in as caraer should it become necessary. -- Cynic |
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:16:30 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote: Two things would have saved my employment - a more flexible employer (working reduced hours for reduced pay, but at least still working or very flexible hours) ... snip That's only possible if the employer can reasonably employ a person on that basis. If your employer needed a person who could be relied upon to get through a fixed amount of work per week, and/or who was needed on-site during working hours, it would not have been something your employer would have been *able* to agree to. -- Cynic |
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:51:02 +0000, Andy Champ
wrote: Can you not see that for a great many employers, paying an extra salary every month to someone who does not actually do any work can be just as devastating, and could easily result in bankruptcy for the employer? That would especially be the case if such a thing became law, because for every genuine case there would bound to be several chancers who did not*really* have to stay at home as a carer. IF such a thing became law? Have you ever looked at the rights for pregnant women? Yes - and fathers as well now. At least it is not completely open-ended, which paying for an unproductive "carer" would have to be. The law regarding maternity leave has resulted in many employers being even more reluctant that they used to be to employ women between certain ages. Not that I think it would be a bad thing, from a sociological perspective, to return to the old-fashioned system of having the husband as the breadwinner and the wife staying at home taking care of the domestic duties. Unfortunately the economy has changed to make it impossible for a great proportion of families to be able to live on a single income. -- Cynic |
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:46:19 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote: Why should that situation be anyone's problem apart from you, your friends and your family? When my wife was in a similar situation, it would certainly have caused me just as much hardship as it did you *if* I had provided all the necessary care personally. There were however plenty of friends and family members who between them were able and willing to provide the additional necessary care without significant detriment to themselves. The idea that complete strangers had any sort of duty to solve the problem by paying for her care did not even cross my mind. My wife's family is from Ireland, she has no family over here (her parents moved here before she was born and have now died) and we couldn't really expect her extended family to come and live here for a very extended period. My parents are well into their seventies and certainly couldn't help her up and down the stairs or grab her when she moved and her balance went; or look after our three young kids for extended periods over many, many months. All our friends are in full time work or live many miles away. No, I am not making up a scenario here, this is simply the case. There are many situations that I can sympathise with, but at the end of the day I have to take the attitude "tough luck" rather than shell out to solve everyone else's problems. I'd love to be able to save all the starving 3rd World children as well - but pragmatically that is also "tough luck". If the only people who could be her carers are in Ireland (or Africa or India or China), then pragmatically there is a decision to be made as to whether she needs to move to where she can be properly looked after. Lots of people have difficult problems to overcome, and I do not accept that the only solution available is to take more and more money from the taxpayers. -- Cynic |
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In article 4f316ac0.94678500@localhost, Cynic
scribeth thus On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:51:02 +0000, Andy Champ wrote: Can you not see that for a great many employers, paying an extra salary every month to someone who does not actually do any work can be just as devastating, and could easily result in bankruptcy for the employer? That would especially be the case if such a thing became law, because for every genuine case there would bound to be several chancers who did not*really* have to stay at home as a carer. IF such a thing became law? Have you ever looked at the rights for pregnant women? Yes - and fathers as well now. At least it is not completely open-ended, which paying for an unproductive "carer" would have to be. The law regarding maternity leave has resulted in many employers being even more reluctant that they used to be to employ women between certain ages. Yes I know one firm that had three of them go preggers at the same time the replacement staff and cars broke them;(... Not that I think it would be a bad thing, from a sociological perspective, to return to the old-fashioned system of having the husband as the breadwinner and the wife staying at home taking care of the domestic duties. Unfortunately the economy has changed to make it impossible for a great proportion of families to be able to live on a single income. Indeed it has.. -- Tony Sayer |
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On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:21:27 +0000, Steve Walker
wrote: On 01/02/2012 13:37, Cynic wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:32:34 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Wrong. Taking the property of an innocent man because you are acting on *rumour* is still theft. In your scenario, the *thief* is still a thief, even if by mistake, while my uncle was quite clearly an innocent victim. Similarly, beating up an innocent person because you *think* he is a thief is still GBH. "Think" is not the right word and neither is "innocent". There's a big difference between "suspecting" that someone has your stolen tools and having actually seen him take them from your vehicle and make off with them! There is also a similar difference between "suspecting" that someone has committed GBH, and actually seeing him beating up a youngster in the street. In the theft case the "thief" may believe that he has the moral right to take the tools, and in the second case the pugalist believes he has the moral right to inflict GBH. Can you not see that the two situations are exactly the same - a person acting outside the law because he thinks he has the right to do so? -- Cynic |
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:43:14 -0000, "dennis@home"
wrote: I will state again, if you don't have enough time to analyze what you need to be able to see when driving then you are driving too fast. And I will state again that the brain is capable of analysing only one situation at a time, so there will be plenty of times when you do not have time to analyse what you need to be able to see while stationary. -- Cynic |
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On 07/02/2012 18:12, Cynic wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:16:30 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Two things would have saved my employment - a more flexible employer (working reduced hours for reduced pay, but at least still working or very flexible hours) ...snip That's only possible if the employer can reasonably employ a person on that basis. If your employer needed a person who could be relied upon to get through a fixed amount of work per week, and/or who was needed on-site during working hours, it would not have been something your employer would have been *able* to agree to. I am almost entirely an office based Engineer. I design things, write specifications, check other peoples documentation, etc. At least 90% of it could be done at home. Take the kids to school, return home, work, have lunch, work, pick up kids - once kids are in bed work a bit longer. At the worst I could go into the office for a couple of short days to allow for face to face contact and meetings. My level of work is easily measured as there are detailed project plans, with deadlines, expected times, etc. for each document required. Broadband will easily allow me to VPN into the company network, although a USB stick would do. However - just try getting almost any Engineering employer to agree to that. Despite the fact that it would cost them nothing at all. Employers are frequently not flexible, not because of any difficulty, but because management like to be able to look at who is in the office and do they *look* busy and so be obviously *managing* their employees. SteveW |
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On 07/02/2012 18:06, Cynic wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:56:43 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote: Surely that's what NI does? And without a private company making a profit? No, that's what NI was supposed to do. It also seems to make a loss for the state (ie taxpayer) So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? That's how car insurance works, so I don't see why not. The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. In which case if it *does* happen to them, they will have to make alternative arrangements along the lines I have already mentioned. There are no doubt a high proportion of people who will decide that they do not *need* such insurance because they have sufficient family and friends who could step in as caraer should it become necessary. Thus pushing up the price of insurance for everyone else, as the risk is not being spread among everyone, but only amongst those of higher risk. Very soon, those with familial histories of problems would find themselves priced out of buying any insurance. Those with insurance would try not to go to the doctor at any point, in case something small pushes up their premiums. SteveW |
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On 07/02/2012 18:33, Cynic wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:46:19 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Why should that situation be anyone's problem apart from you, your friends and your family? When my wife was in a similar situation, it would certainly have caused me just as much hardship as it did you *if* I had provided all the necessary care personally. There were however plenty of friends and family members who between them were able and willing to provide the additional necessary care without significant detriment to themselves. The idea that complete strangers had any sort of duty to solve the problem by paying for her care did not even cross my mind. My wife's family is from Ireland, she has no family over here (her parents moved here before she was born and have now died) and we couldn't really expect her extended family to come and live here for a very extended period. My parents are well into their seventies and certainly couldn't help her up and down the stairs or grab her when she moved and her balance went; or look after our three young kids for extended periods over many, many months. All our friends are in full time work or live many miles away. No, I am not making up a scenario here, this is simply the case. There are many situations that I can sympathise with, but at the end of the day I have to take the attitude "tough luck" rather than shell out to solve everyone else's problems. I'd love to be able to save all the starving 3rd World children as well - but pragmatically that is also "tough luck". If the only people who could be her carers are in Ireland (or Africa or India or China), then pragmatically there is a decision to be made as to whether she needs to move to where she can be properly looked after. Lots of people have difficult problems to overcome, and I do not accept that the only solution available is to take more and more money from the taxpayers. Okay, so we should have moved to Ireland, where there were no jobs for me and away from my parents who may need support from us soon enough. I don't have any problem with paying to help those in need, although I do object to supporting those who have never had any intention to try and support themselves. You obviously are very much of the "I'm alright Jack" ilk and are not willing to provide support for others who are struggling through no fault of their own and do not have the support networks to assist them. I'm pretty right-wing myself and feel that far too much is paid out in benefits to those who only ever take, but I do feel that society owes care and help to those who are unable to help themselves through age, illness or infirmity - or for those who are normally productive members of society, but are temporarily unemployed. SteveW |
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On 07/02/2012 18:36, Cynic wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:21:27 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: On 01/02/2012 13:37, Cynic wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:32:34 +0000, Steve Walker wrote: Wrong. Taking the property of an innocent man because you are acting on *rumour* is still theft. In your scenario, the *thief* is still a thief, even if by mistake, while my uncle was quite clearly an innocent victim. Similarly, beating up an innocent person because you *think* he is a thief is still GBH. "Think" is not the right word and neither is "innocent". There's a big difference between "suspecting" that someone has your stolen tools and having actually seen him take them from your vehicle and make off with them! There is also a similar difference between "suspecting" that someone has committed GBH, and actually seeing him beating up a youngster in the street. In the theft case the "thief" may believe that he has the moral right to take the tools, and in the second case the pugalist believes he has the moral right to inflict GBH. Can you not see that the two situations are exactly the same - a person acting outside the law because he thinks he has the right to do so? No they are not the same situations, despite the law being broken in both cases. In one someone is stealing an innocent person's tools of his trade. He has no right to do so and no right to think that he can - even if he thinks that they are his relative's tools, he has nothing to confirm (even to himself) that that is the case. In the other case, the victim of the theft, has actually seen the person taking the tools and therefore there is no doubt about the guilt of the thief, however he has no way to prove to the authorities that that is the case and therefore no recompense or punishment will follow. i.e. In one case, a person punished an innocent person by taking the tools of his trade, while in the other a person punished a guilty person for taking his tools, when the authorities were unwilling to commit any resources to gathering sufficient evidence for a prosecution - and of course even if they had, the thief would likely have had to pay a fine to the state, while paying no recompence to his victim (who would likely have had to lose even more money by taking time off for the court case! SteveW |
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In article 4f31677c.93842656@localhost,
Cynic wrote: So would you privatize it while making it compulsory? That's how car insurance works, so I don't see why not. I'm not sure that's a recommendation. The snag with voluntary schemes is many will just take the risk it won't happen to them. In which case if it *does* happen to them, they will have to make alternative arrangements along the lines I have already mentioned. There are no doubt a high proportion of people who will decide that they do not *need* such insurance because they have sufficient family and friends who could step in as caraer should it become necessary. Wish I had your confidence. I've a feeling there would be lots who would end up relying on charity. -- *Prepositions are not words to end sentences with * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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However - just try getting almost any Engineering employer to agree to
that. Despite the fact that it would cost them nothing at all. Employers are frequently not flexible, not because of any difficulty, but because management like to be able to look at who is in the office and do they *look* busy and so be obviously *managing* their employees. SteveW They'll learn, given time. They'll just have to;!.. I know if a large local Taxi firm where when they have "overloads" like Friday and Sat nights they can bring online home based workers who VPN into their system for DATA and the "office" phone. Works very well main reason is that the workers find it very attractive working from home, they just don't have to go out to the office for a few hours;!.. -- Tony Sayer |
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On 07/02/12 18:25, Cynic wrote:
The law regarding maternity leave has resulted in many employers being even more reluctant that they used to be to employ women between certain ages. Not that I think it would be a bad thing, from a sociological perspective, to return to the old-fashioned system of having the husband as the breadwinner and the wife staying at home taking care of the domestic duties. Unfortunately the economy has changed to make it impossible for a great proportion of families to be able to live on a single income. And that social change has probably contributed to the economic change. If a two income household can outbid a single income household when it comes to housing costs then the sort of ever-rising house prices we have become all too accustomed in 2 or 3 generations is no surprise. When I bought my flat a quarter of a century all my neighbours were, as myself, singles buying on a mortgage. Now half are rented by couples and sharers. -- djc |
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In message , djc
writes On 07/02/12 18:25, Cynic wrote: The law regarding maternity leave has resulted in many employers being even more reluctant that they used to be to employ women between certain ages. Not that I think it would be a bad thing, from a sociological perspective, to return to the old-fashioned system of having the husband as the breadwinner and the wife staying at home taking care of the domestic duties. Unfortunately the economy has changed to make it impossible for a great proportion of families to be able to live on a single income. And that social change has probably contributed to the economic change. If a two income household can outbid a single income household when it comes to housing costs then the sort of ever-rising house prices we have become all too accustomed in 2 or 3 generations is no surprise. When I bought my flat a quarter of a century all my neighbours were, as myself, singles buying on a mortgage. Now half are rented by couples and sharers. When I bought my first house in 1969 wife's earning were ignored and max mortgage was STRICTLY 3 x earnings and 80% of purchase price. To get a mortgage you had to join the queue and you couldn't even get in the queue unless you had a savings record. -- hugh |
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