Wireless Application Designers

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless (More info?)

In article <nP4wc.40944$Hn.1262880@news20.bellglobal.com>,
The AIM Group <gfraser@aim-personnel.com> wrote:
 ur Federal Government client requires Wireless Applications Contractors.

:The AIM Group
:230-6991 ext. 222
:www.aimpersonnel.ca

How odd -- a Web site in Canada, but a phone number in Mauritius
(country code 230). But I thought that even Mauritius used at
least 5 digits for their local phone numbers (6991). The CIA Fact Book
indicates about 400,000 phones as of 2000, which would tend to imply
at least 6 digits in the local number.

Speaking of the CIA Fact Book -- Mauritius is, I see, a Republic. Is
it proper to speak of it has having a Federal Government, seeing as
it isn't a Federation?

Probable conclusion: the personnel company is operating on behalf of
an unnamed government, and potential candidates should be cautious
on the issue of exactly where they might end up.
--
Can a statement be self-referential without knowing it?

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless (More info?)

"Walter Roberson" <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote in message
news:c9qom1$n0q$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca...
> In article <nP4wc.40944$Hn.1262880@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> The AIM Group <gfraser@aim-personnel.com> wrote:
>  ur Federal Government client requires Wireless Applications Contractors.
>
> :The AIM Group
> :230-6991 ext. 222
> :www.aimpersonnel.ca
>
> How odd -- a Web site in Canada, but a phone number in Mauritius
> (country code 230). But I thought that even Mauritius used at
> least 5 digits for their local phone numbers (6991). The CIA Fact Book
> indicates about 400,000 phones as of 2000, which would tend to imply
> at least 6 digits in the local number.
>
> Speaking of the CIA Fact Book -- Mauritius is, I see, a Republic. Is
> it proper to speak of it has having a Federal Government, seeing as
> it isn't a Federation?

The United States has a federal government, and it's a republic. We were a
federation, briefly, but then we replaced the Articles of Federation with
the Constitution. I believe the distinction is that in a federation, the
consituent states do not yield sovereignty to the federal government. This
was one of the weaknesses of federations discussed at length in the
Federalist Papers, and the main constitutional issue of the Civil War. FWIW,
the CIA Fact Book calls the United States a "Constitution-based federal
republic".

>
> Probable conclusion: the personnel company is operating on behalf of
> an unnamed government, and potential candidates should be cautious
> on the issue of exactly where they might end up.
> --
> Can a statement be self-referential without knowing it?