Put your Canon Glass to Use With Your iPhone!

On 5/23/2018 12:32 AM, android wrote:
On 2018-05-23 00:42:48 +0000, Davoud said:

Eric Stevens:
What I meant that in such a poor society a single individual would not
be able to muster the funds to buy a smartphone. Rather in much the
same way that in the majority of communities around the world no
single individual would be able to muster the funds to buy a Boeing
777.

What I want to know is this: have you lived in the kind of poor society
that you are talking about? Because if you have not, you are
speculating. Guessing. "Visited" is not enough. Where did you live?

I have a very hard time deciding what jumbo I'm not going to by due to
lack of founds. Charing a smartphone in a rural community is not
stranger than having a partyline telephone connection. Something that I
did not knew existed or what it was before I encountered via American
television...

At one point my parents had one. I am just guessing that the time was
early in WWII. It was some time about 1944 that they could afford not to
have one. In those years they were very common in my old neighborhood.

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PeterN

On 23-May-18 6:06 PM, PeterN wrote:
On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Oh dear. :-(

Lots of consequential agro. for you, for sure.

--
David B.

On 2018-05-23 17:06:00 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Ouch!
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teleportation kills

On May 23, 2018, android wrote
(in article ):

On 2018-05-23 17:06:00 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Ouch!

Still better than falling asleep at the wheel.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zvn0w4e7oh2upr9/AACTEV0FQjTQ01N3PwfQIHfZa

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Regards,
Savageduck

On 5/23/2018 2:58 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On May 23, 2018, android wrote
(in article ):

On 2018-05-23 17:06:00 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Ouch!

Still better than falling asleep at the wheel.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zvn0w4e7oh2upr9/AACTEV0FQjTQ01N3PwfQIHfZa


Yep. That happened to me once. i had a bad cold, and drank about half a
bottle of cold medicine. It was luck that I didn't hurt anybody, except
for some minor injury to myself. Fortunately I had stopped at a stop
sign, fell asleep, and only knocked down the sign, and damaged a car I
borrowed from a friend. It was an expensive day, as the car repair cost
me about $1,500.

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PeterN

On May 23, 2018, PeterN wrote
(in article ):

On 5/23/2018 2:58 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On May 23, 2018, android wrote
(in article ):

On 2018-05-23 17:06:00 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Ouch!

Still better than falling asleep at the wheel.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zvn0w4e7oh2upr9/AACTEV0FQjTQ01N3PwfQIHfZa

Yep. That happened to me once. i had a bad cold, and drank about half a
bottle of cold medicine. It was luck that I didn't hurt anybody, except
for some minor injury to myself. Fortunately I had stopped at a stop
sign, fell asleep, and only knocked down the sign, and damaged a car I
borrowed from a friend. It was an expensive day, as the car repair cost
me about $1,500.

In my case it was pure fatigue. I had an unavoidable 20 hour workday, and was
heading home. I didn’t make it. I ended up upside-down hanging from my
seatbelt. The car did a barrel roll to land on its roof, and slide along the
road upside-down. The airbag blew my right hand off the steering wheel and
through the now smashed glass moonroof, where the road chewed up my right
hand. Fortunately, other than a bad seatbelt burn to my shoulder, that was my
only injury. It did get me off work for two weeks, and enough cash from
Allstate after my Ford was totalled to buy my first Mercedes, a used 560SEL.

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Regards,
Savageduck

On Wed, 23 May 2018 12:33:48 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

The airbag blew my right hand off the steering wheel and
through the now smashed glass moonroof, where the road chewed up my right
hand.

That's a lesson I also learned - if you are about to hit something,
take your hands away from the steering wheel. My airbag tore the watch
off my wrist, and blew it into the street. My hand felt broken for
weeks. Airbags are evil.

Eric Stevens:
What I meant that in such a poor society a single individual would not
be able to muster the funds to buy a smartphone. Rather in much the
same way that in the majority of communities around the world no
single individual would be able to muster the funds to buy a Boeing
777.

Davoud:
What I want to know is this: have you lived in the kind of poor society
that you are talking about? Because if you have not, you are
speculating. Guessing. "Visited" is not enough. Where did you live?

Eric Stevens:
What exactly are you driving at?

What I said. If you have not lived in the third world for some period
of time (for me it was 1966-1993 in SE Asia, the Middle East, and East
Africa) your talk of how the poor and the very poor live is based on
fantasy.

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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

On Wed, 23 May 2018 13:06:00 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Ouch! That looks expensive.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Wed, 23 May 2018 11:58:56 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On May 23, 2018, android wrote
(in article ):

On 2018-05-23 17:06:00 +0000, PeterN said:

On 5/23/2018 12:33 AM, android wrote:


snip


only because you know you can't back up your claims.

You can't have to many backups...

The bus that did this to my car, had too many.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjyhdrxt7cmg150/IMG_0270.JPG?dl=0

Ouch!

Still better than falling asleep at the wheel.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zvn0w4e7oh2upr9/AACTEV0FQjTQ01N3PwfQIHfZa


.... or blacking out as a result of a medication error
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qxyh9uc9l...4HXsp8oda?dl=0
The car was made into a convertible by the local fire service.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens