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| First post | 2018-05-01 13:54 +0000 |
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[review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-01 13:54 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) - 2018-05-01 14:58 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Bill Dugan <wkdugan@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-01 08:10 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-03 06:36 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Bill Dugan <wkdugan@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-03 07:06 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-03 06:35 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-01 19:29 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-01 15:06 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-01 20:31 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-01 16:07 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-01 14:25 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-01 21:33 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-05-01 15:14 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-01 15:40 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-05-02 00:15 +0100
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2018-05-02 04:50 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 03:00 -0400
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-05-02 16:24 +0300
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 11:00 -0400
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-05-03 16:22 +0300
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-02 15:34 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:53 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-02 21:13 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-02 17:20 -0400
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-02 21:23 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-02 21:25 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-02 14:35 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 16:40 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-02 15:53 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:10 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:33 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:55 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-02 16:08 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-02 21:54 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:30 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:35 -0500
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-02 16:07 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:54 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2018-05-09 21:57 -0300
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-10 02:44 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-10 03:59 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-10 04:25 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Magewolf <Magewolf@nc.rr.com> - 2018-05-10 08:04 -0400
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 05:34 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-10 09:36 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-11 06:14 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-11 07:52 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-05-11 17:08 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 11:27 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-10 11:47 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-05-10 13:51 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-05-02 23:52 +0100
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-03 00:24 +0000
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-02 17:31 -0700
Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders graydonish@gmail.com - 2018-05-02 18:07 -0700
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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 15:34 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <fku44fFtdseU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #491502 |
In article <nboiedh2fuepco5f89flspif19eo4bmors@reader80.eternal-september.org>, Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2 May 2018 04:50:30 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote: > >>On 2018-05-01, Michael R N Dolbear <me@privacy.net> wrote: >>> >>> "Lynn McGuire" wrote >>> >>>> To ignore Amazon is >>> the proverbial "cut your nose off to spite your face". >>> >>>> And I would think that Amazon would pay you in your native currency. >>> However, who would want Canadian Dollars at the moment ? >>> >>> >>> I think Amazon pay you in the 'home' currency of each Kindle store where a >>> copy was sold. >>> >>> Conversion is for your bank. >>> >>> Graydon had some problem connected with his (Canadian) Credit Union? >> >>As I recall, he had several problems with Amazon, but one of the >>problems he objected to on principle was that they would only pay him >>anything from a Kindle store if that particular country's Kindle store >>sold above some threshold, and he didn't anticipate selling enough >>copies in any market other than the big ones. That strikes me as >>something Amazon could and would have changed by now. > >I just received payments of 29 cents and 36 cents for Amazon Kindle >sales in countries other than US, UK, or Canada, so yes, I think >they've changed it. > Don't spend it all in one place! -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 15:53 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491515 |
On 5/2/2018 10:34 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > In article <nboiedh2fuepco5f89flspif19eo4bmors@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2 May 2018 04:50:30 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2018-05-01, Michael R N Dolbear <me@privacy.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> "Lynn McGuire" wrote >>>> >>>>> To ignore Amazon is >>>> the proverbial "cut your nose off to spite your face". >>>> >>>>> And I would think that Amazon would pay you in your native currency. >>>> However, who would want Canadian Dollars at the moment ? >>>> >>>> >>>> I think Amazon pay you in the 'home' currency of each Kindle store where a >>>> copy was sold. >>>> >>>> Conversion is for your bank. >>>> >>>> Graydon had some problem connected with his (Canadian) Credit Union? >>> >>> As I recall, he had several problems with Amazon, but one of the >>> problems he objected to on principle was that they would only pay him >>> anything from a Kindle store if that particular country's Kindle store >>> sold above some threshold, and he didn't anticipate selling enough >>> copies in any market other than the big ones. That strikes me as >>> something Amazon could and would have changed by now. >> >> I just received payments of 29 cents and 36 cents for Amazon Kindle >> sales in countries other than US, UK, or Canada, so yes, I think >> they've changed it. >> > > Don't spend it all in one place! I'm trying to think of any place that he could spend $0.55 at and get something. Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. The remaining dime was for anything I wanted which was just about anything there. Lynn
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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 21:13 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <fkuo0lF3bj2U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #491533 |
In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >On 5/2/2018 10:34 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: >> In article ><nboiedh2fuepco5f89flspif19eo4bmors@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >> Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 2 May 2018 04:50:30 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2018-05-01, Michael R N Dolbear <me@privacy.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> "Lynn McGuire" wrote >>>>> >>>>>> To ignore Amazon is >>>>> the proverbial "cut your nose off to spite your face". >>>>> >>>>>> And I would think that Amazon would pay you in your native currency. >>>>> However, who would want Canadian Dollars at the moment ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I think Amazon pay you in the 'home' currency of each Kindle store where a >>>>> copy was sold. >>>>> >>>>> Conversion is for your bank. >>>>> >>>>> Graydon had some problem connected with his (Canadian) Credit Union? >>>> >>>> As I recall, he had several problems with Amazon, but one of the >>>> problems he objected to on principle was that they would only pay him >>>> anything from a Kindle store if that particular country's Kindle store >>>> sold above some threshold, and he didn't anticipate selling enough >>>> copies in any market other than the big ones. That strikes me as >>>> something Amazon could and would have changed by now. >>> >>> I just received payments of 29 cents and 36 cents for Amazon Kindle >>> sales in countries other than US, UK, or Canada, so yes, I think >>> they've changed it. >>> >> >> Don't spend it all in one place! > >I'm trying to think of any place that he could spend $0.55 at and get >something. > >Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. The remaining dime >was for anything I wanted which was just about anything there. > >Lynn > The copy of _Farmer In The Sky_ I bought sometime in the 70s was the last new $0.50 book I ever saw. (I suspect it had been on the shelves a few years too). -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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| From | jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 17:20 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <pcda22$oe0$1@panix1.panix.com> |
| In reply to | #491534 |
In article <fkuo0lF3bj2U1@mid.individual.net>, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: > >The copy of _Farmer In The Sky_ I bought sometime in the 70s was the >last new $0.50 book I ever saw. (I suspect it had been on the shelves a few >years too). Huh. Dell flogged it at half a buck as late as 1972. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
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| From | jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 21:23 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <pcda8u$fie$1@reader1.panix.com> |
| In reply to | #491535 |
In article <pcda22$oe0$1@panix1.panix.com>, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >In article <fkuo0lF3bj2U1@mid.individual.net>, >Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: >> >>The copy of _Farmer In The Sky_ I bought sometime in the 70s was the >>last new $0.50 book I ever saw. (I suspect it had been on the shelves a few >>years too). > >Huh. Dell flogged it at half a buck as late as 1972. I am sure someone explained how it was the rights to the RAH juvies didn't go as a set but I've since forgotten. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 21:25 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <fkuon5F3gpnU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #491535 |
In article <pcda22$oe0$1@panix1.panix.com>, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: >In article <fkuo0lF3bj2U1@mid.individual.net>, >Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote: >> >>The copy of _Farmer In The Sky_ I bought sometime in the 70s was the >>last new $0.50 book I ever saw. (I suspect it had been on the shelves a few >>years too). > >Huh. Dell flogged it at half a buck as late as 1972. > Yep, it was Dell. I would have been 11 in 72, I'm guessing I'm more likely to have bought it when I was 12 or 13. -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 14:35 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <58b06dcc-6a36-4cec-b9b0-e8b50dc981bc@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #491533 |
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:53:16 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 5/2/2018 10:34 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > > In article <nboiedh2fuepco5f89flspif19eo4bmors@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > > Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2 May 2018 04:50:30 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On 2018-05-01, Michael R N Dolbear <me@privacy.net> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> "Lynn McGuire" wrote > >>>> > >>>>> To ignore Amazon is > >>>> the proverbial "cut your nose off to spite your face". > >>>> > >>>>> And I would think that Amazon would pay you in your native currency. > >>>> However, who would want Canadian Dollars at the moment ? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I think Amazon pay you in the 'home' currency of each Kindle store where a > >>>> copy was sold. > >>>> > >>>> Conversion is for your bank. > >>>> > >>>> Graydon had some problem connected with his (Canadian) Credit Union? > >>> > >>> As I recall, he had several problems with Amazon, but one of the > >>> problems he objected to on principle was that they would only pay him > >>> anything from a Kindle store if that particular country's Kindle store > >>> sold above some threshold, and he didn't anticipate selling enough > >>> copies in any market other than the big ones. That strikes me as > >>> something Amazon could and would have changed by now. > >> > >> I just received payments of 29 cents and 36 cents for Amazon Kindle > >> sales in countries other than US, UK, or Canada, so yes, I think > >> they've changed it. > >> > > > > Don't spend it all in one place! > > I'm trying to think of any place that he could spend $0.55 at and get > something. > > Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to > give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the > Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. The remaining dime > was for anything I wanted which was just about anything there. I think I did hear lately that children are still being used in drug dealing!
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 16:40 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <pcdb8c$a48$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491538 |
On 5/2/2018 4:35 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:53:16 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> On 5/2/2018 10:34 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: >>> In article <nboiedh2fuepco5f89flspif19eo4bmors@reader80.eternal-september.org>, >>> Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 2 May 2018 04:50:30 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2018-05-01, Michael R N Dolbear <me@privacy.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> "Lynn McGuire" wrote >>>>>> >>>>>>> To ignore Amazon is >>>>>> the proverbial "cut your nose off to spite your face". >>>>>> >>>>>>> And I would think that Amazon would pay you in your native currency. >>>>>> However, who would want Canadian Dollars at the moment ? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I think Amazon pay you in the 'home' currency of each Kindle store where a >>>>>> copy was sold. >>>>>> >>>>>> Conversion is for your bank. >>>>>> >>>>>> Graydon had some problem connected with his (Canadian) Credit Union? >>>>> >>>>> As I recall, he had several problems with Amazon, but one of the >>>>> problems he objected to on principle was that they would only pay him >>>>> anything from a Kindle store if that particular country's Kindle store >>>>> sold above some threshold, and he didn't anticipate selling enough >>>>> copies in any market other than the big ones. That strikes me as >>>>> something Amazon could and would have changed by now. >>>> >>>> I just received payments of 29 cents and 36 cents for Amazon Kindle >>>> sales in countries other than US, UK, or Canada, so yes, I think >>>> they've changed it. >>>> >>> >>> Don't spend it all in one place! >> >> I'm trying to think of any place that he could spend $0.55 at and get >> something. >> >> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >> give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >> Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. The remaining dime >> was for anything I wanted which was just about anything there. > > I think I did hear lately that children are still > being used in drug dealing! Hey, I was 10. Shouldn't 10 year olds be allowed to buy a carton of Camels ? Of course, that would be about $50 nowadays. I think it was really to get me out of the house and burn off some energy. At three packs a day though, he would go through two cartons of cigarettes a week. Lynn
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 15:53 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <cf340851-48e0-4c64-8232-b8585bdf3cc3@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #491539 |
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:40:31 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 5/2/2018 4:35 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote: > > On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:53:16 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote: > >> On 5/2/2018 10:34 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > >>> In article <nboiedh2fuepco5f89flspif19eo4bmors@reader80.eternal-september.org>, > >>> Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> On 2 May 2018 04:50:30 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On 2018-05-01, Michael R N Dolbear <me@privacy.net> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> "Lynn McGuire" wrote > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> To ignore Amazon is > >>>>>> the proverbial "cut your nose off to spite your face". > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> And I would think that Amazon would pay you in your native currency. > >>>>>> However, who would want Canadian Dollars at the moment ? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I think Amazon pay you in the 'home' currency of each Kindle store where a > >>>>>> copy was sold. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Conversion is for your bank. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Graydon had some problem connected with his (Canadian) Credit Union? > >>>>> > >>>>> As I recall, he had several problems with Amazon, but one of the > >>>>> problems he objected to on principle was that they would only pay him > >>>>> anything from a Kindle store if that particular country's Kindle store > >>>>> sold above some threshold, and he didn't anticipate selling enough > >>>>> copies in any market other than the big ones. That strikes me as > >>>>> something Amazon could and would have changed by now. > >>>> > >>>> I just received payments of 29 cents and 36 cents for Amazon Kindle > >>>> sales in countries other than US, UK, or Canada, so yes, I think > >>>> they've changed it. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Don't spend it all in one place! > >> > >> I'm trying to think of any place that he could spend $0.55 at and get > >> something. > >> > >> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to > >> give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the > >> Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. The remaining dime > >> was for anything I wanted which was just about anything there. > > > > I think I did hear lately that children are still > > being used in drug dealing! > > Hey, I was 10. Shouldn't 10 year olds be allowed to buy a carton of > Camels ? Of course, that would be about $50 nowadays. > > I think it was really to get me out of the house and burn off some > energy. At three packs a day though, he would go through two cartons of > cigarettes a week. I missed it was carton at a time! I should have figured from the price. How it goes nowadays: <https://notalwaysright.com/no-id-no-idea-part-35/109413/> Poor grandpa. :-) I'm in Britain and currently tobacco is taxed to the point where it just almost starts to be acceptable in society to buy bootleg - there are periodic outbreaks of that. But in the early 1970s, I suppose that level of tax would have led to a General Strike.
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| From | Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 15:10 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA8D69A72F4128taustingmail@69.16.179.42> |
| In reply to | #491533 |
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
news:pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me:
> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather
> used to give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike
> over to the Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90.
> The remaining dime was for anything I wanted which was just
> about anything there.
>
Indeed. These days, the grandfather would be arrested and put in
prison for sending a child to buy cigarettes, and the child would be
sent to a reeducation camp for not reporting grandpa to the
authorities..
You know I'm only half kidding.
--
Terry Austin
Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 17:33 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <pcdeb1$smg$3@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491546 |
On 5/2/2018 5:10 PM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote: > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in > news:pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me: > >> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather >> used to give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike >> over to the Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. >> The remaining dime was for anything I wanted which was just >> about anything there. >> > Indeed. These days, the grandfather would be arrested and put in > prison for sending a child to buy cigarettes, and the child would be > sent to a reeducation camp for not reporting grandpa to the > authorities.. > > You know I'm only half kidding. I was in our local reeducation camp a few years as a favor to a friend in our church prison ministry. About half (100+) of the men were sitting in a large room watching "Days of Our Lives". Lynn
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| From | Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 15:55 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA8D6A2076201Ataustingmail@69.16.179.43> |
| In reply to | #491552 |
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
news:pcdeb1$smg$3@dont-email.me:
> On 5/2/2018 5:10 PM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather
>>> used to give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my
>>> bike over to the Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for
>>> $1.90. The remaining dime was for anything I wanted which was
>>> just about anything there.
>>>
>> Indeed. These days, the grandfather would be arrested and put
>> in prison for sending a child to buy cigarettes, and the child
>> would be sent to a reeducation camp for not reporting grandpa
>> to the authorities..
>>
>> You know I'm only half kidding.
>
> I was in our local reeducation camp a few years as a favor to a
> friend in our church prison ministry. About half (100+) of the
> men were sitting in a large room watching "Days of Our Lives".
>
Get people bored enough, and they're watch the black filler between
the commercials, hoping for the color to change.
--
Terry Austin
Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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| From | Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 16:08 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <pcdgdj$84d$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491552 |
On 5/2/2018 3:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 5/2/2018 5:10 PM, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote: >> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in >> news:pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me: >> >>> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather >>> used to give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike >>> over to the Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. >>> The remaining dime was for anything I wanted which was just >>> about anything there. >>> >> Indeed. These days, the grandfather would be arrested and put in >> prison for sending a child to buy cigarettes, and the child would be >> sent to a reeducation camp for not reporting grandpa to the >> authorities.. >> >> You know I'm only half kidding. > > I was in our local reeducation camp a few years as a favor to a friend > in our church prison ministry. About half (100+) of the men were > sitting in a large room watching "Days of Our Lives". > That's not re-education. That's just pointless torture. -- Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation instinct are running screaming.
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 21:54 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <p84FIG.20vC@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #491533 |
In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: > >Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. And they'd sell them to you??? Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet complained about it.) -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 17:30 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <pcde75$smg$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491549 |
On 5/2/2018 4:54 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >> give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >> Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. > > And they'd sell them to you??? > > Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors > went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I > never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet > complained about it.) I'm sure that the only thing that they would not sell a 10 year old in Texas in 1970 was beer or wine. Lynn
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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 17:35 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <pcdefp$smg$4@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491551 |
On 5/2/2018 5:30 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 5/2/2018 4:54 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, >> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >>> give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >>> Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. >> >> And they'd sell them to you??? >> >> Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors >> went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I >> never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet >> complained about it.) > > I'm sure that the only thing that they would not sell a 10 year old in > Texas in 1970 was beer or wine. > > Lynn Shoot, the Pik-n-Pak afternoon clerk was 15 or 16. He was my grandparents next door neighbor and a major jerk. Lynn
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| From | Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 16:07 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <pcdgc6$84d$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #491551 |
On 5/2/2018 3:30 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 5/2/2018 4:54 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, >> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >>> give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >>> Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. >> >> And they'd sell them to you??? >> >> Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors >> went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I >> never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet >> complained about it.) > > I'm sure that the only thing that they would not sell a 10 year old in > Texas in 1970 was beer or wine. > But they'd sell him (or her) the gun to hold the store up with to get the beer and wine! :) -- Inquiring minds want to know while minds with a self-preservation instinct are running screaming.
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| From | Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-05-02 15:54 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <XnsA8D6A1D10C734taustingmail@69.16.179.43> |
| In reply to | #491549 |
djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
news:p84FIG.20vC@kithrup.com:
> In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather
>>used to give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike
>>over to the Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90.
>
> And they'd sell them to you???
In 1970, I could have (at age nine) probably gone to the local
hardware store and bought *dynamite* if I told them it was for my
parents.
>
> Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors
> went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I
> never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet
> complained about it.)
>
I suspect it was quite regional.
--
Terry Austin
Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB
"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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| From | Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> |
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| Date | 2018-05-09 21:57 -0300 |
| Message-ID | <ju57fdpaakqdrb4vj3osugbn7i3nahogin@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #491549 |
On Wed, 2 May 2018 21:54:16 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: > In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, > Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to > >give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the > >Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. > > And they'd sell them to you??? > > Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors > went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I > never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet > complained about it.) In the fifties I saw a situation comedy in which a father confronted a clerk who had sold tobacco to his son; the clerk said "It's all right; he was buying it for his mother." Turned out that the mother was making bug poison. Mom once sent me to the drug store once to buy cough syrup. She looked at the bottle the pharmacist recommended and exclaimed "he sold codeine to a minor!" and was quite upset. I don't recall whether I had to sign for it. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
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| Date | 2018-05-10 02:44 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <flhq0hFahm5U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #491857 |
In article <ju57fdpaakqdrb4vj3osugbn7i3nahogin@4ax.com>, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote: >On Wed, 2 May 2018 21:54:16 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) >wrote: > >> In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>, >> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >Things have really changed since I was a kid. My grandfather used to >> >give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so. I would ride my bike over to the >> >Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90. >> >> And they'd sell them to you??? >> >> Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors >> went in? I know it was already in when I was nineteen. (No, I >> never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet >> complained about it.) > > >In the fifties I saw a situation comedy in which a father confronted a >clerk who had sold tobacco to his son; the clerk said "It's all right; >he was buying it for his mother." Turned out that the mother was >making bug poison. > >Mom once sent me to the drug store once to buy cough syrup. She >looked at the bottle the pharmacist recommended and exclaimed "he sold >codeine to a minor!" and was quite upset. I don't recall whether I >had to sign for it. > As far as I know, anyone can buy vanilla extract, which is 70 proof. -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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