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On Thu, 24 May 2018 14:19:17 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 5/23/2018 9:41 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
rOn Wed, 23 May 2018 18:21:50 -0400, Davoud wrote:

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.

"All my talk" consisted only of saying that there places where the
majority of the population cannot individually afford a cellphone. Was
I wrong?


As I stated in a prior post, that is not what you said. That may be what
you meant, but you did not say that.

What did you think I said?
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

at least he didn't have to pay the cab fare.

anyway, what did the cabbie do to warrant being beaten, other than sit
in traffic?

PeterN:
As I stated in a prior post, that is not what you said. That may be what
you meant, but you did not say that.

Eric Stevens:
What did you think I said?

PeterN is correct. What you said was "...in such a poor society a
single individual would not be able to muster the funds to buy a
smartphone."

The implication is that no individual in a very poor society would be
able to buy a cell phone. I have seen with my own eyes that that is not
the case. The Internet is full of stories of how cell phones‹including
smart phones‹have enriched people's lives in poorer parts of the third
world. Reading books, education for children, advice for farmers,
health information...

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

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On May 24, 2018, Eric Stevens wrote
(in ):

On Thu, 24 May 2018 14:09:35 -0400, PeterN
wrote:
On 5/23/2018 3:33 PM, Savageduck wrote:
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.

Things worked out well for you. I had one a few years ago that could
have been much worse. I was T-boned by a drunken cop. This guy was so
out of it, that he told me that he had been celebrating his promotion,
and had more than five drinks. Fortunately, the Lexus I was driving was
a loaner car, and nobody was seriously hurt. I would up getting a
ticket, which I was fighting. Since I was not hurt, although the Lexus
was totaled, I finally agreed to plead to a lower charge, which only
cost me about $75.00. It was not worth my time to continue the fight.
The State postponed the case about five times, for BS reasons, and each
appearance took most of the day. (Including travel time.)

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

The obvious question should be; did the cab driver leave the meter running,
and who paid?

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Regards,
Savageduck

On Thu, 24 May 2018 17:00:27 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

at least he didn't have to pay the cab fare.

anyway, what did the cabbie do to warrant being beaten, other than sit
in traffic?

He collided with the police car.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Thu, 24 May 2018 18:58:12 -0400, Davoud wrote:

PeterN:
As I stated in a prior post, that is not what you said. That may be what
you meant, but you did not say that.

Eric Stevens:
What did you think I said?

PeterN is correct. What you said was "...in such a poor society a
single individual would not be able to muster the funds to buy a
smartphone."

THat came later. What I originally said in Message-ID:
was::

"The world is full of genuinely poor people who can never aspire to
owning a smart phone."

You have confirmed that what I wrote was correct when in
Message-ID: you wrote:

".... in The Sudan, smartphones are quite common, even where
individuals can't afford them but groups of people or whole
villages can afford to share one."

It was in response to this that in Message-ID:
I wrote:

"I would regard a community which had to pool their funds to buy a
smartphone as poor. In such a community there is no hope for an
individual who wants to buy a smartphone or camera."

Owning a share in a smartphone is not the same as owning a smartphone.



The implication is that no individual in a very poor society would be
able to buy a cell phone. I have seen with my own eyes that that is not
the case. The Internet is full of stories of how cell phones‹including
smart phones‹have enriched people's lives in poorer parts of the third
world. Reading books, education for children, advice for farmers,
health information...

All of which is true and is thoroughly good thing.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

at least he didn't have to pay the cab fare.

anyway, what did the cabbie do to warrant being beaten, other than sit
in traffic?

He collided with the police car.

not if he was sitting in traffic, he didn't.

On May 24, 2018, nospam wrote
(in ) :

In , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

at least he didn't have to pay the cab fare.

anyway, what did the cabbie do to warrant being beaten, other than sit
in traffic?

He collided with the police car.

not if he was sitting in traffic, he didn't.

It sounds like the cop hit the cab, and then beat the crap out of the driver
for having the audacity to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Regards,
Savageduck

In article .com,
Savageduck wrote:

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

at least he didn't have to pay the cab fare.

anyway, what did the cabbie do to warrant being beaten, other than sit
in traffic?

He collided with the police car.

not if he was sitting in traffic, he didn't.

It sounds like the cop hit the cab, and then beat the crap out of the driver
for having the audacity to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

in other words, it wasn't 'collided with police car' but rather
'corrupt cops'

On Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:30 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Years ago my brother in law was a passenger in a cab in Mexico City.
The cab was stopped in a stationery queue of vehicles and had been for
some time. A police car came screaming out of a side road and slid
sideways into the cab. Even before the dust had settled a load of
policemen were disgorged from the car and descended on the cab. They
hauled the driver out onto the road and started beating him with
truncheons. They then hauled him away to the police station leaving my
brother in law sitting in the by now imobilised cab.

at least he didn't have to pay the cab fare.

anyway, what did the cabbie do to warrant being beaten, other than sit
in traffic?

He collided with the police car.

not if he was sitting in traffic, he didn't.

I'm giving you the official story.


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Regards,

Eric Stevens