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Re: China bashing--Now LEC reading times

To: rrengineer@dslextreme.com
Subject: Re: China bashing--Now LEC reading times
From: Larry Macy <lmacy@phillymgclub.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:47:46 -0400
Sure you can. Get a laptop with an EVDO modem card and pay your  
cellular service for the privilege of having hi-speed internet access  
from the cab. The folks on commuter trains and AMTRAK do it every day.

But then again, while you are re-reading that latest ad for viagra at  
70MPH and the curve you just entered was for 40 . . . . . . . . . . . .

Larry

On Apr 6, 2007, at 5:09 PM, rrengineer@dslextreme.com wrote:

> Try working for the railroad.  Unless you work in the yard (low paying
> jobs), when you are on the main line, there are NO holidays.  I work 7
> days a week, around the clock availability with 6 paid holidays  
> that you
> come to work and get paid an extra days pay in addition to what you  
> earned
> for that day and I can't send emails from the cab of a locomotive  
> going 70
> mph.
> Mike MacLean
> 60 Sprite
> 56 BN2
>
>
> David Lieb
>>> I must work for a bunch of heathens, we don't get Good Friday off.
>>
>> well, we don't get Columbus Day, MLK Day, or most
>> of the other "half-holidays" off. We get 10 paid holidays,
>> the only unusual ones being Good Friday and Veteran's Day.
>> No, we don't get Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, although
>> we do get the Friday after Turkey Day, otherwise known as
>> SOS.
>> David Lieb
>
>

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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
Senior IT Program Director
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

  Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a  
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