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"David Taylor" wrote in message
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On 2009-10-07, Zimmy wrote:
"Ian" wrote in message
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In message , Zimmy
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But it is different from just saying Sky, it is derogatory and is
intended
to convey they are just interested in making a lot of money like M$
instead of MS for Microsoft.

Well, considering that for the last thirty years the public have voted
for
rampant Capitalism (free market economy), it's not exactly a secret is
it?

My only point is that conveys a slightly different meaning. I don't care
whether using the statement is right or wrong.

I don't think Brian is saying it is right or wrong either, merely that
it's hard to understand through a screen reader...

Quite. I don't think he was seriously asking for favours, I for
one would have to change my name to a more phonetic Grayam

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

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J G Miller wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:08:15 +0100, Tony wrote:

They forget that the businesses are there to support society not the
other way round.

Not in capitalist societies.

The purpose of a business is to increase the wealth of those who have
invested capital in the business.

Anything else that the business produces is just a bi-product of that
fundamental purpose.

yes, but is not the point of capitalism to provide for society, or can
it survive without the poor?

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Tony

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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:37:14 +0100, Tony wrote:

yes, but is not the point of capitalism to provide for society

No the point of capitalism is to acquire as much capital as possible
in order to control society in order to acquire further capital.

or can it survive without the poor?

No, capitalism needs the poor. Why do you think that capitalists close
down their production lines in countries where people have more wealth
and move them to countries where people are much poorer?

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I don't think Brian is saying it is right or wrong either, merely that
it's hard to understand through a screen reader...

Quite. I don't think he was seriously asking for favours, I for
one would have to change my name to a more phonetic Grayam

--
Graham.

No need. Screen readers are quite sophisticated and have large
dictionaries - it's just that Sky with a dollar is not in them.

Out if interest, how is voice to speech software these days? I tried some a
long time ago but improvements in processing power should have
revolutionized this area of software. Also, I wonder what sort of
microphones Brian and friends would use because the typical ones for
computers are rubbish.

Paul DS

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On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:50:23 +0100, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:

I don't think Brian is saying it is right or wrong either, merely that
it's hard to understand through a screen reader...

Quite. I don't think he was seriously asking for favours, I for
one would have to change my name to a more phonetic Grayam

--
Graham.

No need. Screen readers are quite sophisticated and have large
dictionaries - it's just that Sky with a dollar is not in them.

Out if interest, how is voice to speech software these days? I tried some a
long time ago but improvements in processing power should have
revolutionized this area of software. Also, I wonder what sort of
microphones Brian and friends would use because the typical ones for
computers are rubbish.

Some may be using keyboards rather than microphones.

When typewriters were invented one of the first uses was to enable blind
people to write letters to sighted friends.
http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-history.html

begin quote
The concept of a typewriter dates back at least to 1714, when Englishman
Henry Mill filed a vaguely-worded patent for "an artificial machine or
method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or
progressively one after another." But the first typewriter proven to
have worked was built by the Italian Pellegrino Turri in 1808 for his
blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzono (as established by
Michael Adler in his excellent 1973 book The Writing Machine);
unfortunately, we do not know what the machine looked like, but we do
have specimens of letters written by the Countess on it.
end quote


--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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"Graham." wrote in message
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Quite. I don't think he was seriously asking for favours, I for
one would have to change my name to a more phonetic Grayam

I used to know a chap called Graham at school. Attempts at conversation with
him would be thwarted by the sheer tedium of his answers, which were always
insipid and uninteresting, and were delivered in a monotonal drone. It
wasn't long before he became known as Grey Man. I believe he committed
suicide in his twenties.

Bill

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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:06:12 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Attempts at conversation with him would be thwarted by the sheer tedium of
his answers, which were always insipid and uninteresting, and were
delivered in a monotonal drone.

Would you ascribe this behavior to genetic origins or environmental factors?

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:06:12 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Attempts at conversation with him would be thwarted by the sheer tedium
of
his answers, which were always insipid and uninteresting, and were
delivered in a monotonal drone.

Would you ascribe this behavior to genetic origins or environmental
factors?

I don't know.

Bill

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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
It says a lot about British justice that this bloke when to jail when
people commit violent assaut or burglary and get off with community
service. It's about time the safety of the individual and the property
of ordinary people were regarded as being as important as the fortunes
of great big firms like Sky.

Don't be silly. Who do you think runs this country? It's big business
regardless of the party in power - and always has been. Hence bankrupting
the country to bail out a few banks who couldn't organise a **** up in a
brewery. As if there weren't more than enough of them still trading.

--
*The most common name in the world is Mohammed *

Dave Plowman London SW
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In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
It says a lot about British justice that this bloke when to jail when
people commit violent assaut or burglary and get off with community
service. It's about time the safety of the individual and the property
of ordinary people were regarded as being as important as the fortunes
of great big firms like Sky.

Don't be silly. Who do you think runs this country? It's big business
regardless of the party in power - and always has been. Hence bankrupting
the country to bail out a few banks who couldn't organise a **** up in a
brewery. As if there weren't more than enough of them still trading.

It was notable that the UK Government had no meaningful talks with the
IRA until they blew up money ( Canary Wharf, Manchester retail centre)
in 1996.
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Ian