Posted by Ron Rosenfeld on May 22, 2007, 7:20 am
On 21 May 2007 23:46:46 -0700, dances_with_barkadas@yahoo.com wrote:
>> at that time this bank had the
>> ability to obtain a quote, deliver the instruments, and obtain
>> reimbursement within one or two business days.
>The ability? USA has the ability to bring democracy and peace to
>Iraq.... but what is the cost?
>Talk is cheap, internet chatter is even cheaper. If they had to
>deliver US funds to you at a discount of 50% off the published
>exchange rates, to NOT incur opportunity costs to be in the
>moneychanging business - would you actually have smiled and said -
>"great, i'll go for it!!"
>The bank had made a business decision to NOT be in this particular
>game. Neither of us can know the details of why, but I'm willing to
>give them the benefit of the doubt as to their sound business
>judgement. After all, someone found their operation attractive enough
>to PURCHASE. HAs anyone done due-diligence on your business planning,
>then offered to write you a check?
>You seem like a clever fellow - but can you show that you know better
>than the bank's management did, what's good for their stockholders?
>They existed to enrich stockholders, not to serve customers.
I should have known better.
--ron
Posted by Gregg Holmes on May 15, 2007, 1:29 pm
The "commit" remark was just a little joke. The quality of the joke can
be questioned but not the intent.
Vaughn Simon wrote:
>
> > Its a pledge not a prayer. you wouldn't understand if we tried to
> > explain it.
> >
> > "I have dual British/Canadian citizenship"
> >
> > Talk about inability to commit!
> >
> I was brought up in Detroit Michigan, and (though I have no actual claim
to
> Canadian citizenship) consider myself to be sorta part Canadian. We Detroiters
> watched Canadian TV interchangeably with US TV, listened to Canadian rock &
roll
> radio stations interchangeably with the US variety, drank Canada Dry sodas, ate
> Canadian bacon, and thought nothing of using Canadian currency. We often
> crossed over to the Canadian side of the border because (frankly) Windsor was
a
> nicer place than Detroit.
>
> So what does that make me?
>
> Vaughn
Posted by Liam Greenwood on May 14, 2007, 2:11 pm
> Its a pledge not a prayer. you wouldn't understand if we tried to
> explain it.
Requires a belief in God - so from an outsiders view it looks not unlike
any other religious chant - such as a group prayer.
Cheers, Liam
Posted by Gregg Holmes on May 15, 2007, 1:26 pm
The original pledge didn't have "under god " in it. that was added
later.
Liam Greenwood wrote:
>
> > Its a pledge not a prayer. you wouldn't understand if we tried to
> > explain it.
>
> Requires a belief in God - so from an outsiders view it looks not unlike
> any other religious chant - such as a group prayer.
>
> Cheers, Liam
Posted by Derek Broughton on May 13, 2007, 7:32 pm
David Williams wrote:
> I am entitled to hold passports from both
> countries, vote in elections in both, etc., etc..
Really? Not really. Maybe as long as you stay in Canada, but if you were
residing in the UK there's definitely no right to continue to vote in
Canada - we have residency requirements as well as citizenship.
--
derek
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>> ability to obtain a quote, deliver the instruments, and obtain
>> reimbursement within one or two business days.
>The ability? USA has the ability to bring democracy and peace to
>Iraq.... but what is the cost?
>Talk is cheap, internet chatter is even cheaper. If they had to
>deliver US funds to you at a discount of 50% off the published
>exchange rates, to NOT incur opportunity costs to be in the
>moneychanging business - would you actually have smiled and said -
>"great, i'll go for it!!"
>The bank had made a business decision to NOT be in this particular
>game. Neither of us can know the details of why, but I'm willing to
>give them the benefit of the doubt as to their sound business
>judgement. After all, someone found their operation attractive enough
>to PURCHASE. HAs anyone done due-diligence on your business planning,
>then offered to write you a check?
>You seem like a clever fellow - but can you show that you know better
>than the bank's management did, what's good for their stockholders?
>They existed to enrich stockholders, not to serve customers.