Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/08/2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2015 22:17:16 Bob Bernstein wrote: >> we Yankees are put off by >> "apothecated," and begin, when we see it, to wonder if we >> have any prescriptions that need to be picked up at the good >> old apothecary. > > And quite right too. > > You a

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have quadruple checked hypothecated. It is right this time. It's not as if you are a chronic or "multiple" offender, which latter adjective is in some counties preferred for reference to citizens who earn repeated arrests for driving while intoxicate

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 09 August 2015 22:17:16 Bob Bernstein wrote: > we Yankees are put off by > "apothecated," and begin, when we see it, to wonder if we > have any prescriptions that need to be picked up at the good > old apothecary. And quite right too. You are better proof readers than I. I see what I

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 09 August 2015 21:51:10 Richard Owlett wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> Because it's not a tax. > > > > In effect, it is an apothecated tax. But we are reluctant to acknowledge > > that. Typo and old age with recalcitrant fingers. Also lousy proof reading. I believe tah

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Richard Owlett wrote: I did a duckduckgo search for "apothecated". Same here only used google, which seemed to want to make me understand how "hypothecated" should be used. My hunch is the two words are equivalent in some vague sense of functionality, but clearly we Yan

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 09 August 2015 15:51:10 Richard Owlett wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> Because it's not a tax. > > > > In effect, it is an apothecated tax. But we are reluctant to acknowledge > > that. > > I did a duckduckgo search for "apothecated". I got a bunch of > colonial dictio

"two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: [snip] Because it's not a tax. In effect, it is an apothecated tax. But we are reluctant to acknowledge that. I did a duckduckgo search for "apothecated". I got a bunch of colonial dictionaries. Their definitions seemed to make no sense in context. What's the Crown's

Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Huh, don't give our stick government any ideas; TV has never had a license issue in my lifetime in AU. And if the LNP (Liberal/National Party - coalition or rather demolition!) ... succeeds in screwing us over more, it just might be on their cards :( We have pay tv, but plenty of free to air; sa

[OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn

2015-08-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 09 August 2015 11:50:48 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 06:43:15 -0400 > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > Hello Renaud, > > >I cannot understand why the UK has not followed the other countries > >that have ditched TV licensing, and all the attending bureaucracy, and > >replaced it