Text 66, 123 rader
Skriven 2005-04-03 22:33:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GREG SEARS
Ärende: telco service
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 -=> Quoting Greg Sears to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Our local BBSs packed it in en masse in 1996. I couldn't afford the
 > telephone tolls to Alberta or B.C. so I dropped out for a year or so.
 > My last two BBSs have been internet based and are in California
 > (Salata) and now Florida (Doc's). It's nice to be back.

 GS> Interesting that the phone-system is too expensive, but you can
 GS> connect to the internet on the same phone system it sounds like
 GS> down_under! #[;-)] 
 
 GS> Tell me if the snow is always there it would be harder to dig
 GS> telephone poles making it more expensive to get to the internet eh? ;-)

Actually the high costs are from having a low population in a large
region and needing so many poles! And yes, the climate and the terrain
make it worse.

More tags:

We each pay a fabulous price for our visions of paradise -Rush
We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves.
We eat and drink while tomorrow we die.
We eat fish and fish eat us.
We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot!
We embrace eccentricity in New Orleans
We end our lives as moles in the dark of dawn patrol.
We faced a crisis in our earlier nuclear age.
We fall in love with a personality but we must live with a character.
We fear change. WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
We feed our baby onions so we can find it in the dark
We find in life exactly what we put in to it.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us
We found a Ethiopian, can we keep him? - Cartman     Sure hon. - Mom
We found a witch, might we burn her?
We found the wisdom not to destroy ourselves.
We get some kind of weather here nearly every day.
We get too soon old, too late smart.
We get ulcers by mountain-climbing over mole-hills!
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. - William Alger
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
We give nothing as willingly as our advice.
We give women money to have more children.
We got Cartman's pig so we can splice its genes with my elephant.-Kyle
We got Puritans, Aussies got convicts. They got the better deal.
We got a situation where someone's got a button connected to a bomb!
We got a virus here!!!!!
We got computers.  We're tappin' phone lines
We got great weather here tonight under the dome! - Announcer
We got guns!  We're better than you!
We got guts! Yes we do! We got guts! How 'bout you?
We got no troubles, life is de bubbles
We got plenty of youth - What we REALLY need is a Fountain of Smart!
We got the money!!  Now, where are the naked women?
We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta hang together or hang separately.
We grow because we struggle, learn and overcome.
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves.
We guarantee SPEEDY SERVICE......... no matter how long it takes !
We hAvE yOuR mArS pRoBe. We WaNt 1 bIlIiOn CrEdItS iN 24 Hrs.- Aliens
We had a meeting of the minds, but mine didn't show up.
We had a need to feel the thunder.
We had a quicksand box.  I was an only child...eventually
We had only two problems this time: strategy and execution.
We had our moment in the sun.
We had the tools...WE HAD THE TALENT!
We had to forcibly restrain Kevin during the rum tasting.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
We has met the enemy, and he is us. Pogo
We hate all music, especially rap
We hate more passionately than we love.
We have a blind date with destiny & it looks like she ordered lobster
We have a hormonal relationship.
We have a permanent plan for the time being
We have a proud tradition of accepting only large bribes.
We have a two party system: US vs Them
We have all the rights in the world - until we try to use them.
We have art that we do not die of the truth. -- Nietzsche
We have captured your president. He was delicious.
We have come to assimilate your lager!
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
We have enough scientists; we need more hunchbacks, Igor.
We have enough weirdness here without having to import it - M. Pollard
We have examined Sol III.  No intelligent lifeforms.
We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse
We have found a witch!  May we burn her?
We have found all life forms in the galaxy are capable of superior
We have found that research causes cancer in mice.
We have found the enemy and he is us
We have four seasons: Tornado, Drought, Mud and Hell Freezing Over.
We have harmony, complete peace. Elias Sandoval
We have here the latest in primitive technology.
We have just enough religion to hate, but not enough to love - J. Swift
We have lost the time that was so hard to find
We have lots of criminal lawyers.  We just haven't convicted any yet.
We have loved, burned by fate,
We have message sign the likes with which even God has never seen!
We have met the enemy, and he is us,  P. Possum
We have movie sign!!!
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We have no "rights" here; only privileges.
We have no choice but to believe in free will
We have no free press any more.  It is bought and paid for.
We have no king but Caesar!
We have no more surprises.
We have no need for ancient ways, our world is doing fine.: Rush
We have no need or want. Elias Sanoval


Cheers

Jim, in Yellowknife




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