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Skriven 2014-12-10 15:03:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: stenchiness 401
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-09-14  06:47 <=-

 ML> I was supposed to go to Su Chiang with friends last night,
 ML> but it was sleeting, and we decided to go someplace closer
 ML> to minimize the driving. We ended up at the Witch's Brew
 ML> (possibly Witches' Brew), where we got various seafood

Sounds like a wise decision... sleeting driving isn't much fun..

 ML> things - in a fit of optimism I ordered baked scallops,
 ML> which were not the erasers that I feared but not the sweet
 ML> creatures I hoped for, either. They were distinctly real
 ML> but bore the same resemblance to good scallops that
 ML> supermarket peaches do to tree-ripened ones. That's okay -
 ML> I can't get good scallops even at Su Chiang.

At least they were real... and, I trust, not too badly baked,
either....?  ;)  How did they do with the other seafood items..? 
 
 NB>> Speaking of which, Fu has added kimchee to his offerings... making
 NB>> his own good fermented kimchee, with nice red pepper and ginger and
 NB>> all.. The last batch had fresh daikon cut up into it as well...
 NB>> since he didn't cook it at all first, it had a stronger bite than
 NB>> I've had from daikon usually in any of its other forms...  :)
 ML> Daikon should have a little kick, but I don't recall any
 ML> that had the level of bite of a regular radish. I'd probably
 ML> like it, though.

I'd expect you would.  This actually had close to the actual bite of a
regular radish, enough so that I accused it of being such at first... ;)
I was quickly put right, though.  It was very nice, even if a bit
unexpected... 

 ML>> moved their operations abroad, where US laws cannot
 ML>> reach (in an enforcement sense). 
 NB>> As is evident by the accents of the callers, obviously from off-shore
 NB>> call centers... We are being hit pretty hard with calls from supposed
 NB>> insurance quote centers... all different names and numbers, but the
 NB>> same callers, same accents, same spiel... VOIP has a lot to answer
 ML> I always thought that VOIP should be just as regulated
 ML> as anything else and would not mind if substantial levies
 ML> were made against the companies to pay for that regulation.

Likewise...  although you know that the levies would be passed on to the
customers in whatever ways they could...  Not so much a problem when
regards the scammers/telemarketers, perhaps...
 
 NB>> for... And if one tries to invoke Do Not Call, one is informed,
 NB>> "so sorry, it's autodialed"... 
 ML> Which doesn't make any difference, as far as the law is
 ML> concerned. But what's the use of millions of judgments
 ML> against violators if the governments that actually have
 ML> jurisdiction don't care.

Indeed.

ttyl          neb

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