From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 3 Aug 2006 07:40 Le 03/08/2006, Mxsmanic a suppos : > Carole Allen writes: > >> You ask for donations for your personal use. They ask for donations >> to relieve suffering of others. They are not using donations to >> purchase items for themselves, but to use for the organizaiton's core >> purpose of aid to others. > > How do they purchase items for themselves, if not by using money from > donations? They don't purchase items for their personal comfort or even for their basic needs. The money donated is used for operations : that means working to relieve suffer, and a tiny part of it to maintain a little structure, to pay a small team, generally at very low wages. The items purchased, or chartered, are intended for -charity- work. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 3 Aug 2006 07:41 Le 03/08/2006, Mxsmanic a suppos : > Carole Allen writes: > >> No, you asked about the organizaiton, but to be pedantic, the doctors >> who are members would be licensed professionals in their respective >> specialities. > > How can that be, if the original assertion that asking for donations > made one non-professional is correct? The donations are not intended for a specific doctor. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 3 Aug 2006 07:45 Dans son message prcdent, Mxsmanic a crit : > Carole Allen writes: > >> Can't you read? They are NOT purchasing items for their personal use. > > Where do the doctors live, and how do they eat? The food they it does not fall under the "personal use" category. They don't go to Africa to do gourmet-tasting of the local specialties. Generally, the doctors who work from DwB assume a big loss : - they take risks, - they use a big amount of time to go abroad, and thus write off "valuable" time in France during which they could make more money. >> They are funding transport of people and material to places where drs >> and medical support staff are needed. They are purchasing medicine >> and medical equipment for these purposes. They are not buying rolexes >> and land rovers and symphony tickets, nor are they buying air >> conditioners for their homes, or feeding themselves a constant string >> of sugary drinks and McD burgers. > > And apparently, according to you, they are not buying food or shelter, > either, since those would be distinctly personal items. Not distinctly at all. >> Oh, and I would bet those places are HOT, and people are >> living in tents in camps and do NOT have AC. > > Who purchases the tents? Those are personal items. The organisation does. And these tents are collective ones, with medical equipment, thus not personal. Please stop comparing yourself to DwB, you're being utterly ridiculous. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: JohnT on 3 Aug 2006 07:59 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:m552d2pc5or2evh44sv76lj01ma0mst14h(a)4ax.com... > David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > deansgate writes: > >> It was irony, numbnuts. > > Are you sure? > Yes. JohnT
From: JohnT on 3 Aug 2006 08:17
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:7j63d29drggpbrsmom2ve74ag0oe23o1vb(a)4ax.com... > Tchiowa writes: > >> You don't have to do that. You just change. New laws in the past >> decade. The original phone company that put in the land lines is >> required by law to share them with other providers. All I have to do is >> ask and my service is changed. > > How do they change the local loop without any physical intervention? > > How do you change water or sewer companies? > >> It costs me nothing to change phone companies. It costs me nothing to >> change electrical providers. And it costs me nothing to change health >> care insurers. > > So do you choose the cheapest provider each time you make a call, or > each time you plug something into the wall? > Have you never heard of Carrier Pre-Select? JohnT |