On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:14:02AM -0500, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> >I have encountered ATM machines in the USA that happily give you
> >amounts
> >with a $1 granularity. (For additional hate: I once ended up
> >getting $2
> >
>
> Wow. I've never seen such a thing ? back in the dirt poor days
I have encountered ATM machines in the USA that happily give you
amounts
with a $1 granularity. (For additional hate: I once ended up
getting $2
Wow. I've never seen such a thing – back in the dirt poor days, I
used to know where all the machines that gave out $5 bills were, in
case I
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:16:24PM +0100, Ann Barcomb wrote:
> Rory McCann's mail reminded me of American ATM machines. In the
> Netherlands,
> if I want 20 euros, I type in '20'. In the US, if I want $20, for some
> reason I have to enter '2000' despite the fact that the least amount
> of money
On 2007-12-17 at 14:12 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> the FP-11 was a box thrown over the wall from another planet.
A declaration of war?
-Phil
On 2007-12-17, at 13:31, Phil Pennock wrote:
The Americans went "we're replacing a name with a number, that's
all, so
Dec 17th, 2007 becomes 12-17-2007" whereas everyone else went
"mixing up
ascending and descending numbers like that is something only those
people who, years from now, will de
On 2007-12-17 at 20:22 +0100, Anders Hellström wrote:
> On 17 dec 2007, at 19.52, Phil Pennock wrote:
>> On 2007-12-17 at 19:27 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:08 +, David Cantrell
>>>
>>> wrote:
Until very recently I could tell Barclays that I wanted to make a
On 17 dec 2007, at 19.52, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2007-12-17 at 19:27 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:08 +, David Cantrell
wrote:
Until very recently I could tell Barclays that I wanted to make a
payment on, eg, 3/1/2008. Now I have to pay on 03/01/2008.
DD/MM
Rory McCann's mail reminded me of American ATM machines. In the Netherlands,
if I want 20 euros, I type in '20'. In the US, if I want $20, for some
reason I have to enter '2000' despite the fact that the least amount
of money I can get from the machine is $10.
From my perspective, it would mak
On 2007-12-17 at 19:27 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:08 +, David Cantrell
> wrote:
> > Until very recently I could tell Barclays that I wanted to make a
> > payment on, eg, 3/1/2008. Now I have to pay on 03/01/2008.
>
> DD/MM or MM/DD ? HATE!
Barclays is British a
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:08 +, David Cantrell
wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:57:21PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
>
> > That's minor hate. The stupidity that really gets my ire is that if I want
> > to pay a bill if some even number of pounds, it won't just let me enter "0"
> > for
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:57:21PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> That's minor hate. The stupidity that really gets my ire is that if I want
> to pay a bill if some even number of pounds, it won't just let me enter "0"
> for the p field--- doing so gives an error that it cannot process the
> pa
Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> Didn't "decimalisation" happen sometime in '71? It's not like I have to pay
> bills in combinations of guieas, crowns, pounds, shillings, and pence.
I encountered something similar. I was helping my mother pay her yearly bin
charges online. It was about €200. The interf
Robert Rothenberg wrote:
That's minor hate. The stupidity that really gets my ire is that if I want
to pay a bill if some even number of pounds, it won't just let me enter "0"
for the p field--- doing so gives an error that it cannot process the
payment, with no explanation why.
I once had to
I try to pay bills using HSBC's website. First off, when paying in British
currency, the £ and p fields are separate.
So you cannot pay a bill for £46.32. You pay a bill for £46 and 32p.
Didn't "decimalisation" happen sometime in '71? It's not like I have to pay
bills in combinations of guieas
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