<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I just got a TENS unit, reconditioned, paid for by Medicare. On the form it said $795. I went to their web site where it was listed new for $169.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Will the company take the difference and write it off as a tax loss? Right. A scam and a fraud I've seen many times before. I know some of you fellow libertarians hate government rules and control, but somebody needs to control this sort of thing. bill w<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:26 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafal Smigrodzki</span></p>
<div class=""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Be nice to leftists<b><u></u><u></u></b></div><p></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">### Well, yeah. There have been discussion on this list about what makes greater sense as a way of popularizing transhumanism, wide outreach or focused attention. Looks like focused attention is the way, and the pros - political lobbyists, pharma reps, were right all along<span style="color:#1f497d">…</span>Rafal<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It feels to me as though Transhumanism has become crazy popular, without much effort or expense on our part. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I remember back in the old days, when you could have the local transhumanist meetings in a phone booth (assuming anyone here remembers what those are and what they were for.) Now I see the local (Berkeley) Transhumanist group is on fire, gathering proles like nobody’s business. The Stanford group is active, there are some lads from the San Jose area that look like they will get critical mass soon.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Everywhere I hear discussions among normal people about matters that were way out geek-chic cutting edge space-case stuff 20 yrs ago. Now it has become so respectable, a hard-core geek doesn’t know what to do or say.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I wouldn’t be surprised if Alcor gets a rush of business in the next few years, an expansion of demand far beyond what it is ready to handle, just because the time is right for the masses to go thru the same line of reasoning you and I did two decades ago.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cool!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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