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edfgtrfgh
17y ago
But the food isn't cheap! Everything (except HFCS and beef) is much more expensive than in the EU.
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edfgtrfgh
17y ago
That's the excuse that is used by farmers in Britain. We subsidise growing sugar beet in Germany rather than importing cane sugar because in WWII German U-boats cut off the imports.
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edfgtrfgh
17y ago
When free evening/weekend calls were first introduced there were stories of people using their cell phones as baby monitors - the phone co had to introduce a one hour maximum call length.
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edfgtrfgh
17y ago
The over the air part of SMS can be zero cost. The SMS message is in a spare 128byte segment of a standard phone-base status message (it can send a new packet specificaly to transmit the SMS but it doesn't have to if you don't mind a few mi
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edfgtrfgh
17y ago
It would take a lot of voice calls to make up for charging 10p/10c for a text which costs nothing to send!
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edfgtrfgh
17y ago
So I'm not fat - I'm big muscled?