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  #346  
Old October 7th 18, 10:37 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:40:28 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Wolf K wrote:

Exactly.

But JWK can't imagine anything he hasn't seen with his own eyes. At
least three times.



And lack of empathy seems to be a thing nowadays...


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  #347  
Old October 7th 18, 11:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:23:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:02:59 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:06:06 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:42:08 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

NY wrote:
I've always wondered... In countries where houses have mailboxes on the
roadside, how do they solve the problem of the postman having access to
the mailbox to put mail in it, without there being a problem with theft
or vandalism of mail by people walking along the sidewalk?

Sidewalk? "We need no stinkin' sidewalks!"

In the UK, that's where we park our cars as the roads are so ****ing narrow and there are so many stupid people who own more cars than driveway.


Most of the houses I lived in were built before cars were invented and
so there was no need for parking space. Now I live in a modern house
with lots of parking space but I don't need a car!


My house was built in 1979. I can get 5 cars in the drive and 1 in the garage (yet it's only a 2 bedroom house). I've had as many as 3 cars, usually not all functional.


That's sounds very similar to my house. Lots of room in the drive and
a garage but I don't need car so it's a free for all parking area for
people who visit me as they all have cars. If I want to go out I get a
taxi.

Steve

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  #348  
Old October 7th 18, 11:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 10:18:56 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:38:46 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:47:48 +0100, Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Anyway the postman's job is to deliver your mail to YOU, not something
200 yards away.

Obviously you have no concept of rural.

It's still their job.* We have rural in Scotland, but the postman drives
to your door.

They drive to my door when I have a pickup or delivery too large for the
box. But even in "rural" UK folks tend to cluster in villages. It not
like that in USA. I'm in the county and not in an incorporated town or
village.


The "cluster" I live in only has 8 houses but then that cluster is in
a bigger cluster that could be described as a village. Years ago I
lived in a house that was out in the country but I had to have a car
or walk about a mile to the nearest shop. I gave up driving a few
years ago. I now get a weekly delivery of everything I need. The cost
of delivery is 3 a week.


It's a 37 mile round trip for me to get to a grocery store, and I am in
the more "compact" eastern part of the country. Out west rural is much
more spread out.


I just phone my order to some huge store in the next town. The
delivery van drivers take round trips to lots of houses. I'm on one of
the Wednesday morning delivery rounds so the cost is very low so
that's the day I pick. Shopping by telephone is very common in the UK.

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  #349  
Old October 7th 18, 11:59 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 13:36:00 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote:


I assume you're in America. Do you get home deliveries from
supermarkets over there, if so is it expensive? In the UK, as
Stephen said, it's only a few pounds.


Many supermarkets have home delivery services. Not sure just what they
cost, but it's enough to get me to drive to the supermarket instead (a
drive of just a few minutes for a choice of markets). One of them also
has a service where you pick out what you want online, the staff goes
around the store and fills bags for you, then you drive up and stop in
a special lane and they bring it out for you, load it in your car, and
take your credit card right there at the curb. Cuts down your time at
the store. There's a fee for that too.


My Auntie lives in a very posh area of LA. For shopping she goes to
some store or other and picks what she wants. She stays for a free
coffee while all is delivered to her home. The cost is some percentage
of the order value. It is almost a competition to get home before the
delivery arrives.

Steve

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  #350  
Old October 8th 18, 12:11 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:25:08 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:23:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:02:59 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:06:06 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:42:08 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

NY wrote:
I've always wondered... In countries where houses have mailboxes on the
roadside, how do they solve the problem of the postman having access to
the mailbox to put mail in it, without there being a problem with theft
or vandalism of mail by people walking along the sidewalk?

Sidewalk? "We need no stinkin' sidewalks!"

In the UK, that's where we park our cars as the roads are so ****ing narrow and there are so many stupid people who own more cars than driveway.

Most of the houses I lived in were built before cars were invented and
so there was no need for parking space. Now I live in a modern house
with lots of parking space but I don't need a car!


My house was built in 1979. I can get 5 cars in the drive and 1 in the garage (yet it's only a 2 bedroom house). I've had as many as 3 cars, usually not all functional.


That's sounds very similar to my house. Lots of room in the drive and
a garage but I don't need car so it's a free for all parking area for
people who visit me as they all have cars. If I want to go out I get a
taxi.


My garage is converted to a bird aviary and storeroom, and my drive currently holds 1 car, 2 tonne-bags of ballast, and an enormous pile of tree branches I cut off my neighbour's tree.
  #351  
Old October 8th 18, 03:16 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote:

[snip]

hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when
visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping
mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always


Within the same mall? Silly.

However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move
to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko
  #352  
Old October 8th 18, 05:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 10/7/2018 2:13 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

You must be using some very expensive paper, because everyone gets paper jams.


Just regular A4 papers...

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  #353  
Old October 8th 18, 10:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
My Auntie lives in a very posh area of LA. For shopping she goes to
some store or other and picks what she wants. She stays for a free
coffee while all is delivered to her home. The cost is some percentage
of the order value. It is almost a competition to get home before the
delivery arrives.


It's just been announced in the UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45747673 that Waitrose, one of the
smaller supermarket chains (not as big as Tesco or Sainsburys), is to start
delivering *and unpacking* groceries while you are out. You have a special
lock fitted that the Waitrose driver can open, using a one-time password,
and he wears a body camera which allows you to look at the footage
afterwards in case of disputes about theft or breakage by the driver.

The problem will be telling the driver exactly where to put things - which
cupboard, which shelf of the freezer etc - and to use stock-rotation so they
put the new object behind an older one that you may already have. And will
they have the patience to play "fridge tetris" to move things around to fit
everything in?

Makes a change from this story
https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...ivery-15226512
in which a delivery driver refused to carry a pregnant woman's shopping up a
flight of stairs into her house.

  #354  
Old October 8th 18, 11:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.usage.english
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:02:13 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 10/06/2018 01:03 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

I've never answered my phone with the number and thought it a very odd
thing to do.* When I phone someone, I want to hear "hello" or their
name, not their ****ing number.* What use is that?!


Maybe to help the caller realize he dialed the wrong number.

At one time I had a number starting with 926. One day I got a call from
someone (sounded like a teenager) saying "I want some pussy.". I suppose
he thought he was calling 976 (pay services, often phone sex).


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  #355  
Old October 8th 18, 04:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:16:49 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote:

[snip]

hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when
visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping
mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always


Within the same mall? Silly.

However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move
to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed.


Any shopping centre which has any restrictions on my parking whatsoever doesn't get my custom.
  #356  
Old October 8th 18, 04:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 05:22:39 +0100, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 10/7/2018 2:13 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

You must be using some very expensive paper, because everyone gets paper jams.


Just regular A4 papers...


Judging by your name you probably feed it in precisely, to within a tolerance of 0.00001 degrees.
  #357  
Old October 8th 18, 04:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:13:18 +0100, NY wrote:

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
My Auntie lives in a very posh area of LA. For shopping she goes to
some store or other and picks what she wants. She stays for a free
coffee while all is delivered to her home. The cost is some percentage
of the order value. It is almost a competition to get home before the
delivery arrives.


It's just been announced in the UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45747673 that Waitrose, one of the
smaller supermarket chains (not as big as Tesco or Sainsburys), is to start
delivering *and unpacking* groceries while you are out. You have a special
lock fitted


Change my lock just for that? Err.... I can't see that catching on.

that the Waitrose driver can open, using a one-time password,
and he wears a body camera which allows you to look at the footage
afterwards in case of disputes about theft or breakage by the driver.


Can't he just pause it while he robs you? Or put it down and pretend he was stood still for 10 seconds while he reaches behind him and steals something?

The problem will be telling the driver exactly where to put things - which
cupboard, which shelf of the freezer etc - and to use stock-rotation so they
put the new object behind an older one that you may already have. And will
they have the patience to play "fridge tetris" to move things around to fit
everything in?

Makes a change from this story
https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...ivery-15226512
in which a delivery driver refused to carry a pregnant woman's shopping up a
flight of stairs into her house.


Since when was pregnancy a disability?
  #358  
Old October 9th 18, 05:14 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:50:20 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:16:49 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote:

[snip]

hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when
visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping
mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always


Within the same mall? Silly.

However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move
to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed.


Any shopping centre which has any restrictions on my parking whatsoever doesn't get my custom.


Such a shopping centre can then have their parking spaces used by
people who are not shopping there. That does not gain them anything
useful.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko
  #359  
Old October 9th 18, 06:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 05:14:54 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:50:20 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:16:49 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote:

[snip]

hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when
visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping
mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always

Within the same mall? Silly.

However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move
to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed.


Any shopping centre which has any restrictions on my parking whatsoever doesn't get my custom.


Such a shopping centre can then have their parking spaces used by
people who are not shopping there. That does not gain them anything
useful.


It gains them customers. Why should I jump through hoops to park at a shop? All the supermarkets here have unrestricted parking.
  #360  
Old October 12th 18, 01:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.usage.english
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:38:53 +0100, Lewis wrote:

In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:47:15 +0100, Lewis wrote:


In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:06:37 +0100, Char Jackson wrote:

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:24:23 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 10/05/2018 08:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

If they can't speak English that's their problem.

I think that knowing English should be a requirement for things like
registering a vehicle (in an English-speaking country). Some people don't.

I'm in the "some people don't" category, although I'm not militant or
hardcore about it. I've spent quite a bit of my adult life in other
countries and was always rather amazed at how I and my fellow travelers
just assumed that everyone we encountered would know English - because
mostly they did, to varying degrees. So in this country, (USA), I'm
willing to do my best to talk to anyone. Today, for example, there's a
crew at the house putting on a new roof. Out of the 7 people, only one
apparently speaks English. For the others, I use my High School Spanish
plus what little I picked up during my frequent visits to Spain back in
the 1980's.

When my grandparents came to this country, none of them spoke English.
They each learned, but I imagine that that took a while. To be fair, the
person who became my paternal grandmother didn't know any languages at
all when she arrived, since she was born aboard ship during the trip.

I think people should learn the language of the country they're in only
to make their own lives easier, not to make my life easier. My life is
already easy enough.

Everyone should speak the same language on the entire planet, for ease
of communication. English is the most widespread, and one of the more
sensible ones (no genderised nouns for a start). Is it true that in
French a female cat is male, as it's "le chat" no matter if it's male
or female? Preposterous!

French can't even count. The French for "84" is "four twenties and four"
It's a miracle there were any French mathematicians at all.


I like 99.99 on a radio advert: "quatre vingt dix neuf quatre vingt dix neuf" spoken very quickly.


Stupid language.

I was talking to a native French speakers this week it's he said "French
is a dead language that doesn't know it's dead yet."

I said "any language that needs a government committee to try to
preserve it is terrified of being irrelevant." He agreed.


The government is trying to preserve it? I thought all French spoke
it as their primary language.


This is news to you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadmie_franaise

A few years back, France tried to make the word 'jeans' illegal, and
banned any non-French origin words from official records, or some such..

It appears the only thing the French hate more than the creeping
influence of English is the creeping influence of non-French French
speakers, like Canadians or Algerians.


Even parrots hate it:
https://youtu.be/OseH-G24afs
 




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