Joe, Something's buggy with that Utube video...if I had a blue screen of death, it would have appeared. It was a full stop. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:43 , John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Joseph McAllister >> >>> On Aug 27, 2012, at 09:33 , John Sessoms wrote: >>> >>>> The part that mattered and y'all kind of missed was the "and don't >>>> touch anything else kid". >>>> >>>> I really was a kid, not yet old enough to drive. It was very >>>> unusual someone my age would even be allowed inside the computer >>>> room. Not only was I allowed in, I was allowed to do something, a >>>> very VERY minor something, with the computer. >>>> >>>> I wasn't even particularly interested in computers. If you can't >>>> take it apart to see how it works, what good is it? I already >>>> understood enough about the grown-up world to know "THEY" were >>>> never going to let me do that. >>>> >>>> It was just the least boring place for me to wait around until my >>>> dad decided to quit work and I could catch a ride home. I don't >>>> remember what they used the computer for, although I'm sure I was >>>> told at some time or another. It was an insurance company, so it >>>> must have had something to do with keeping track of the money. >>> >>> It's called Actuarials. How the companies crunch all the statistical >>> know data about peoples frailties, accident rates, death rates, >>> broken down by the block you live on, so they know what to charge >>> everyone and cover known and unknown claim rates, still making enough >>> profit to buy the largest buildings in all large cities so their name >>> is placed up in the air for all to see. >>> >> >> It was hospital insurance, what grew into today's health insurance >> nightmare. Back then you could afford insurance and if you had to go into >> the hospital the insurance would actually pay your hospital bills. > > Yes, I remember that. Having a child did not put a family in the poorhouse. >> >> Would Actuarials be something that affected hospital bills? > > Only in that if you have insurance these days, the hospitals et al can charge > much higher rates to cover the percentage of non-paying customers, which in > turn raised the rates everyone paid for their insurance. > >> >> >>> Joseph who's Dad worked for Liberty Mutual in Boston and Hopkinton >>> Mass for 30 years. The very same company who cancelled me after one >>> $300.00 accident. Bastards. I've only been involved in 4 accidents in >>> my 55 years of driving. One that was my fault, I think. Not sure, >>> really, I nodded off on the way home from my second job at 2 AM on a >>> one way street in San Francisco in 1969. I was driving the timed >>> lights. Apparently I entered the intersection as the light turned >>> green. A taxi entered in a late yellow. Light was red when he T-boned >>> me in my '64 MGB. Seatbelt saved me. Repaired the 'B' and painted it >>> white. Never liked the baby blue the factory used. >>> >>> >> >> The company my dad worked for changed a lot from the time my dad worked >> there. It changed a lot while he was still working there. I think he >> couldn't live with some of the changes in the way they did business and >> that's part of what killed him. His job was his life. >> >> I'm currently paying an additional $300 a year for automobile insurance. My >> car inexplicably rolled backwards into a tree & damaged the rear bumper & >> hatch. Insurance company said my rates wouldn't go up as long as the damage >> was under $1800. The adjuster's estimate came in at $1756. I took the car to >> the shop recommended by the insurance company and he accepted the adjuster's >> estimate. >> >> Fast forward 4 months to when my insurance was due for renewal. I see a >> $150+ jump in my premium. WTF? >> >> The answer is the shop who did the repairs didn't like rear hatch the >> adjuster had found and ordered another. The other hatch brought the total to >> $1802. No one from the shop or the insurance company consulted me at the >> time. >> >> They're telling me I'll have to pay the increased rates for another 5 years >> (7 years total). >> >> I've been with Allstate ever since I first got auto insurance (> 40 years), >> but every time I think about this shit I get angry all over again. It is >> probably going to make me change carriers. >> >> I had to take a week long defensive driving course before I could get my >> Army driver's license. They taught us to wait at least 3 seconds after a >> light turned green before starting into the intersection. I get idiots >> blowing the horn at me a lot because I don't just jack-rabbit out into >> intersections. > > My father was dedicated to Liberty Mutual, because when he returned after WW > II, jobs were scarce because of the sudden cutback in production. His > depression jobs between 1931 and being inducted into the Army in 1943 were > soda jerk, stocking and undergarment sales, and finally a Pepsi Cola > deliveryman, promoted to regional sales director out of Omaha, driving a 38 > Chevy painted red white and blue whose horn played the whole Pepsi Jingle > (you can probably hum it, can't you? "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot, 12 full > ounces that's a lot, twice as much for a nickel too, Pepsi-Cola is the drink > for you.**) > > Liberty hired him as a Safety Engineer and so started the clean air > revolution as he climbed stack and sampled the smoke to ascertain that a > factory was meeting it's designed pollution standards. > > Over the decades he became very well known in the industry, as he earned a > Physics degree in the 50s which placed him in the position of Radiation > Supervisor representing the insurance "pool" designed to allow it's worldwide > members to cover each others butts in case of a nuclear disaster. Russia did > not go along with this, much to their chagrin. The insurance industry > dictated, in cooperation with the users/manufacturers of such materials, what > was safe, what was not. Inspections were made during design, construction and > operation of devices from radium watches, dental X-ray machines up to nuclear > reactors and weapons manufacture (as consultants, the gov't is self insuring). > > As such, during his last 20 years at Liberty, he was offered jobs with other > companies, and other countries, as much as three times what Liberty was > paying him, to jump ship and work for them (as Mother told it, he would not > discuss it). Mother leaned on him for years because of that. He came from > farm stock, she was from wealth, and felt if it could be achieved in our > family, it should. He retired from Liberty. And still heard about the > "possibilities that could have been" from Mom for the additional 11 years > until his death in 1986. > > ** "Nickel, Nickel" aka "Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot"; > words and adaptation by > Austen Herbert Croom-Johnson and Alan Bradley Kent; > some versions may have been arranged by Eric Siday. > [Austen Croom-Johnson later used the pseudonym "Ginger Johnson."] > based upon the 18th-century English hunting song "John Peel". > "Nickel, Nickel" copyright under investigation > "Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot" (c) 1939 by Johnson-Siday > [exact copyright filing dates still under investigation] > > [The "Soda Museum LLC" Web Site says, "This little jingle > would go on to be recorded in 55 different languages..."] > > Listen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTnEbOjVCg&feature=relmfu > the broadcast jingle starts at 1:27. > > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” > — Kevan Olesen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
