Re: [CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread mike
FUD has nothing to do with it. You simply think Google is lying and others think Apple is. Looking at who has a reason to lie, it's not hard to take google's side in this. Apple's only defense has been we didn't really deny google voice after we denied it. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:54 PM, b_s-wi

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread b_s-wilk
Go to amazon.fr and search on "plume waterman". Let me know if it works. In France you're likely to get more returns at Kelkoo, same search terms, http://tinyurl.com/ylyt7qr. Many of the items are in Amazon marketplace, but many are elsewhere too. Try http://www.touslesprix.com/papeterie/ch

Re: [CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread b_s-wilk
Any likelihood that it was consumer backlash? More like world phone envy, or at least T-Mobile envy. T-Mobile has been selling WiFi phones for a year or so. They're popular, like the ones from HTC. Only problem, they were originally crippled so that they only worked with T-M WiFi. WiFi cell

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread Eric S. Sande
Go to amazon.fr and search on "plume waterman". Let me know if it works. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread Robert Carroll
I started this thread by asking how to find fountain pen stores in France. For many products made overseas, an importer will make an agreement with the manufacturer to be the sole importer of that product. This means that a contract is struck: the manufacturer agrees not to sell its product t

Re: [CGUYS] Bands folder?

2009-10-08 Thread Tom Piwowar
On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:12 PM, David Cowdrill wrote: > Problem: I customarily backup to an attached drive using SuperDuper. > I tried Time Machine and it failed reporting not enough space. Using > OmniDiskSweeper > I find that the biggest folder is 74 GB, named "bands"; it has hundreds of 8 > MB

Re: [CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread mike
Several articles have read that it was under pressure from the FCC. Apple's lying about the google app doesn't help. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, db wrote: > Fred Holmes wrote: > >> Any likelihood that it was consumer backlash? >> >> Fred Holmes >> >> > > Hah! When has that ever happened?

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread Jeff Miles
Sorry, but that's just wrong. Wild caught Alaska salmon isn't sent to China for processing. It's processed in Alaska or onboard a processor ship. And if the companies are mostly Chinese, they still have to be 51% American owned. I used to work up there in the industry and still have a few

Re: [CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread db
Fred Holmes wrote: Any likelihood that it was consumer backlash? Fred Holmes Hah! When has that ever happened? Precious seldom me thinks. Corps have personage without liability. People have personage with liability... Normally, corps more or less do what they want and we take what w

Re: [CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread Fred Holmes
Any likelihood that it was consumer backlash? Fred Holmes At 03:33 PM 10/8/2009, db wrote: >So what's the deal with ATT's decision to allow cellular VOIP? > >It's a great thing... should allow minimal cell minutes usage, cheap long >distance and reverse the recent decision re: Google Voice on th

[CGUYS] Bands folder?

2009-10-08 Thread David Cowdrill
Problem: I customarily backup to an attached drive using SuperDuper. I tried Time Machine and it failed reporting not enough space. Using OmniDiskSweeper I find that the biggest folder is 74 GB, named "bands"; it has hundreds of 8 MB file with hexadecimal file names. Question: what is "b

Re: [CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I can only guess the FCC and their push for Net Neutrality even within the Cell phone area. Stewart At 02:33 PM 10/8/2009, you wrote: So what's the deal with ATT's decision to allow cellular VOIP? It's a great thing... should allow minimal cell minutes usage, cheap long distance and reverse

[CGUYS] ATT VOIP decision...

2009-10-08 Thread db
So what's the deal with ATT's decision to allow cellular VOIP? It's a great thing... should allow minimal cell minutes usage, cheap long distance and reverse the recent decision re: Google Voice on the iPhone. Anybody know the back story on why ATT did that? It seems counter-intuitive to Amer

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread betty
Toyota is a publicly held company with profits that go to its shareholders who may be anywhere in the world. Yeah, I own some of that stock. But last time I checked Japan was a free democracy. What's their Ticker Symbol? Find it on most financial sites: TM http://finance.

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread John Settle
Eric S. Sande wrote: Toyota is a publicly held company with profits that go to its shareholders who may be anywhere in the world. Yeah, I own some of that stock. But last time I checked Japan was a free democracy. What's their Ticker Symbol?

Re: [CGUYS] Finding web stores overseas

2009-10-08 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 9:54 PM -0500 10/7/09, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: [snip] The only thing that is domestically produced in large quantities is food stuffs. But most of that has foreign nationals working in large quantities at the plants. Or, in the case of "wild-caught Alaskan salmon", it is sent to Ch