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Article #257Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: John Richards
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:34
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:34
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"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message news:Xns9DBAE1356E367noonehomecom@74.209.131.13... > "John Richards" <JR@blackhole.invalid> wrote in > news:G071o.20001$lS1.12567@newsfe12.iad: >> For me, Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, CA), electronics >> engineering, until she closed for good in Sep. 1996. Sad indeed. > > Which code, John. I was in Code 132.1 Metrology Engineering Center of the > Quality Assurance Office. Code 270.3, Electronics Engineering, part of the Code 240 Design Division. > Very sad they closed some of the best yards, leaving others open for > political purposes..... Indeed. It was very much related to who had more political clout. > My mistake wasn't taking some offers from friends who were in NAVELEX. > SPAWAR is big in Charleston. I should have moved over there. I was a > GS11/4 when I left CNSYD. I could have gone much farther and had a better > retirement coming in. Hind sight is 20/20. Luckily I had enough years (31, including military time), to qualify for an immediate pension under the old CSRS (rather than FERS) retirement plan. I had been a GS12 step 10 for quite some time, so at least the pension is sufficient to live on. With a 'defined benefit' I don't have to worry about 401K plans declining in value. :-) -- John Richards
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X-Google-Thread: 110038,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: fa874,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidd668eef4dc,gidaa617e85ca,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe22.iad.POSTED!08f020f0!not-for-mail From: "John Richards" <JR@blackhole.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,ba.internet References: <4c3cf409$0$22110$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <h7jq369avp6khdjbc8uivaioh8miie84tn@4ax.com> <4c3dab03$0$22127$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <cmrr3650cdqpfkimtqgb45nj36vgsp3o8i@4ax.com> <siegman-5AA573.13052714072010@sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu> <rnss361grsdicbd06rbajlgniho8d4877o@4ax.com> <Xns9DB610031F9CCnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <i1m8iq$q7u$1@news.eternal-september.org> <2gd246h1dm904pbp9mm4a6hse2hk6hqfmp@4ax.com> <Xns9DB8EB62D8FF7noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <hr2546pkfkocgekua52r7f02l6lib11ih1@4ax.com> <Xns9DB9CB9F9F533noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <G071o.20001$lS1.12567@newsfe12.iad> <Xns9DBAE1356E367noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> In-Reply-To: <Xns9DBAE1356E367noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> Subject: Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended Lines: 40 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7600.16543 Message-ID: <1%l1o.19847$0A5.9805@newsfe22.iad> X-Complaints-To: abuse2@dslextreme.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:34:37 UTC Organization: DSL Extreme Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:34:37 -0700