Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: JohnT on 3 Aug 2006 08:21 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:vme3d2hr0g4jga1gb0trpql46usjj6jlhi(a)4ax.com... > Keith W writes: > >> Incorrect > > Explain how multiple providers can serve multiple, distinct customers > and accurately track power consumption using only one physical set of > wires. > >> In the UK the infrastructure (the wiring or piping for gas) is run by a >> heavily regulated company that charges the provider a fixed fee. The >> provider is >> hooked into the infrastructure as is the customer. >> >> As a customer all I need to do to switch provider is make a phone call. > > How does the provider measure your power consumption? > This may be a complete surprise to you but we have gas and electricity meters in or outside dwellings. JohnT
From: JohnT on 3 Aug 2006 08:23 "Martin" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:qoi3d2hbg8atpd4pakrvltkm3o180ojrts(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:56:27 GMT, carolea7(a)comcast.net (Carole Allen) > wrote: > >>On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:01:12 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >>wrote: >>>I've haven't seen anyone demonstrate much in the way of skills here. >>>If you want me to provide professional services, you'll have to pay me >>>for it. >>> >>>-- >>Doyou make people pay to see your CV too? No wonder you can't get a >>real job. > > Other than his name and address, his CV is blank for personal privacy > reasons. > -- You have read it? You have his address? Let's party! JohnT
From: barney2 on 3 Aug 2006 08:40 In article <1154595253_5489(a)sp6iad.superfeed.net>, keithspam(a)kwillshaw.nospam.demon.co.uk (Keith W) wrote: > *From:* "Keith W" <keithspam(a)kwillshaw.nospam.demon.co.uk> > *Date:* Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:04:11 +0100 > > > "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:rj73d2pug26s63k7dseb7e21ga9rkvsrda(a)4ax.com... > > David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > > deansgate writes: > > > >> Not really. It's more common in the UK to refer to MSF in the > > singular. > > > > Most organizations are referred to in the plural in the UK, for > > reasons I have already explained. > > > > You mean like > > THE RSPCA > The AA > The RAC > The NHS > The Dept of Pensions > The Duchy of Lancaster > The PDSA > The Inland Revenue > > > In fact I have a hard time bringing any single organisations > to mind that are referred to in the plural with the exception > of HM Customs and Excise To be fair, most of the examples you cite are /sometimes/ referred to in the plural (it's not unusual, for example, to read a newspaper story saying "The RSPCA are appealing for blah blah blah"). But it's certainly far from a hard and fast rule.
From: Keith W on 3 Aug 2006 09:06 <barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote in message news:_5KdnXhw-oI3c0zZnZ2dnUVZ8qSdnZ2d(a)pipex.net... > In article <1154595253_5489(a)sp6iad.superfeed.net>, > keithspam(a)kwillshaw.nospam.demon.co.uk (Keith W) wrote: > >> >> In fact I have a hard time bringing any single organisations >> to mind that are referred to in the plural with the exception >> of HM Customs and Excise > > To be fair, most of the examples you cite are /sometimes/ referred to in > the plural (it's not unusual, for example, to read a newspaper story > saying "The RSPCA are appealing for blah blah blah"). But it's certainly > far from a hard and fast rule. > Its also bad English When referring to the organization the singular should be used as in the following quote from their website "The RSPCA is celebrating following the announcement that 'headless hurdles' are to be introduced at Cheltenham Racecourse It would be correct to use the plural if referring to those who make up the organisation as in 'RAC members today called for the election of a new chief executive' Keith
From: The Reid on 3 Aug 2006 09:22
Following up to Keith W >"The RSPCA are appealing for blah blah blah"). But it's certainly >> far from a hard and fast rule. >> > >Its also bad English > >When referring to the organization the singular should be used as in >the following quote from their website even I know that, theres *one* organisation. "Are" is just a common and unheeded minor error. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |