Le/On21 Jun 96 @ 1:03, vous ecrivites/you wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:03:36 +1000 > To: emdx@ac*.ne* > From: Billy Williams <bdi@ha*.co*.au*> > Subject: Re: Deep Death Again? and Nitrox etc. > Cc: techdiver@terra.net > At 11:25 PM 19/06/1996 -5, Marc Dufour wrote: > >Le/On20 Jun 96 @ 11:01, vous ecrivites/you wrote: > > >Think of all the poor insurance company shareholders who > > are by law entitled of their share of the profits of the > > insurance company. > > Bugger the shareholders. They're still alive to look > after themselves. I'm dead, remember. Well, if you're dead, what do you care? :) :) :) :) :) > >It is only natural that the insurance company does what is > > it's ultimate purpose in life, that is, show the fattest > > bottom line possible. > > Well short of blatant thievery of course. As long as it stays within the line of legality... > >So don't blame the insurance company for being stupid, > > No, they're not stupid. I wish they *were.* Some are. For example, when I first had a motorcycle, the insurance company insured me by mistake, even though it was against their policy to only insure a motorcyle (without a house and/or a car)... Oh, they honoured the policy allright... > >It is not in it's interest to hire actuarial accountants > >that are smarter than usual, lest they start to give heart > > attacks to the board of directors!!! > > I was merely dreaming of a loophole thru which I might > extract a policy that didn't expire when I did. Hey, that's a fine small print footnote: "the present policy expires at the same time the holder does"... ----------------- Pour la Republique Francaise du Quebec ----------------- The "Moral Majority" (so called) is a deadly enemy to science and to free thought. I think that, at the moment, they are more powerful and more dangerous than people calling themselves Nazis. ---- Isaac Asimov, 1981 ~~~~~ Last dive: the "Rothesay", in Prescott, 11 mfw. ~~~~~ This .sig is illegal in the states, because it contains a dirty word. Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC6 31874 - TDI CD-0197 - http://www.accent.net/emdx
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