But...but...couldn't it now be changed? Now that we all know who to blame? This reminds me of when I recently spent about 6 hours trying to contact our cable company to report an outage (not 6 solid hours, but off and on). When I finally got through to the right person and reported it, she scheduled us for repair 3 days hence, but cheerfully observed "oh yes! I can see on the map that several streets around you are out too." "Oh", says I, "if you have a whole area out, won't you send someone sooner?" "Can't", she says - "I have to wait until a few more people call to report it. " "But maybe you haven't heard from them because they can't get through?" (gritting my teeth) "Could be", she cheerfully replies, "but that's the rule". Such is life in the post-modern bureaucracy. Doesn't matter if we know what's wrong - that doesn't give us a mandate to fix it. Sigh. Ellen > >no that's the way that the Bush administration set up the peer to peer >computer communication authorization. > >On Jan 22, 2011, at 5:22 PM, James Waddick wrote: > >>> Why they have to physically verify your ID to use an online form, >>> but not to >>> use a mail-in form, is one of the great mysteries 21st century >>> America. >>> >>> Mike >> >> Dear Mike, >> >> 1. Because they are USDA >> >> 2. Because they can >> >> Nothing logical or mysterious Anonymous >> -- >> Dr. James W. Waddick >> 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. >> Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 >> USA >> Ph. 816-746-1949 >> Zone 5 Record low -23F >> Summer 100F + >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >William Aley >aley_wd@me.com >http://www.aley.william.name/ > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 Co. Rt. 57 Oswego NY 13126 Phone: 315-342-5915 Fax: 315-342-5573 http://www.senecahillperennials.com/