Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 09:18:14 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: US checking accounts for non-US residents Message-ID: <20010703091814.A8129@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010702214202.D312@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:42:02PM -0700 References: <20010701205343.A269@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107030952480.13813-100000@blow.research.canon.com.au> <20010702214202.D312@blossom.cjclark.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:42:02PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > Not that I don't find the idea that when I use another bank's ATM > machine I have to pay $1.50 service charge to the bank who owns the > ATM, _plus_ another $1.50 to my bank for the honor of getting my money > from someone else's machine a bit too much. What I really don't get is that a substantial number of people are more upset that they have to pay the owner of a machine the cost well over $50,000 and has hugh maintnance costs due to its mechanical complexity then that they have to pay their own bank a similar amount to transfer a few thousands bytes of data. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7QfBEXY6L6fI4GtQRAlpPAKDYY2VtnU9xr4AfNemlA81yujVmOACgj+ep 6PDWGXX2d3Ibwyy6IANHT+c= =yvTl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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