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Article #242092Re: [OT] Now this is rather silly...
From: DG
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 00:02
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 00:02
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Op 10-5-2010 1:35, Rasmus BΓΈg Hansen schreef: >>>>>>>>>> http://lowrez.spreadshirt.de/i+love+pixel >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Apparently he also produces monitors. My laptop claimed to have a >>>>>>>>> lot of >>>>>>>>> pixels. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Judging the lack of posts by Pixel, it could be dead pixels. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Then I should just replace them with new pixels under warranty >>>>>>> claim... >>>>>>> >>>>>> I think Pixel will even in death refuse to be replaced. He'll claim >>>>>> the >>>>>> warranty is lies, all LIES!!! >>>>> >>>>> Isn't this standard behaviour for electronic equipment and the people >>>>> who produce it? >>>>> >>>> >>>> You've been reading the fine print again, haven't you? You do know most >>>> people happily skip past the part that requires glasses, staying >>>> blissfully unaware of stipulations they use in such behavior. >>> >>> As I'm already wearing glasses (except when I sleep, but I seldom read >>> the fine print while asleep. >> >> "You are required to read the instructions during use of the product" (a >> label soon to be found on mattresses. > > And it probably won't say just "Zzzzzz"... One side of the bed has the instructions "snore loudly", the other "use pillow to end snoring by pressing it down on the originator of the offending sound" followed by the phone number of a lawyer. >>> One of my friends actually once was so bored so he read the Windows 95 >>> end user license, which turned out to claim Windows 95 should never be >>> used in nuclear power plants as it contains java which does not tolerate >>> errors. >> >> So MS used to blame java for crashes just like Apple now shifts blame to >> flash. Interesting... > > Yeah, it's always good if you can blame someone else. Especially for your own shortcomings. I think that's why companies hire people, so they can blame them. Otherwise they'd just fire everybody. >>> I would probably never have installed win95 in a nuclear powerplant >>> anyway... >>> >> Wimp! (And I don't mean weakly interacting massive particle) Because of >> you Homer Simpson had nothing better to do than eat donuts. What would >> be a likelier cause of a nuclear accident? A guy goofing off and eating >> donuts or a guy goofing off but safely playing patience? The jelly in >> the donuts is a much higher risk of computer problems than one of the >> few MS programs that never crashes: patience. > > Donuts is the solution - and cause - to all computer problems. > That's very circular thinking, how fitting for a donut. I can't poke a hole in it. -- Danny.
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