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Thread ID: 71788	2006-08-17 02:03:00	Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Company!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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478911	2006-08-17 16:57:00	Uh . . . . . . So? Exploding laptops are still dangerous, and as unrelated to guns as they are to cream donuts . Ummmmmm! Donuts! This is one that I'm gonna agree with Mr Metla . . . he's right on with the assertion that there should not be any added danger of using such an innocuous device as one's own laptop; surfing should not require a flak jacket . As far as suicides/murders/assaults with handguns and freeway dodgeball from flying tire treads . . . that's also unreal . In Arizona, where the trucks run alongside of cars at 75 mph and every other wheeled vehicle and in any lane . . with or without trailers . . . they shed a tread (alligators) once in a while . . . but not in the great droves of detritis as you speak . California has much lower speed limits on trucks (anything with over two axles on the road), and there again are a few alligators on the roads . Trucks are relegated to 55 mph here and they are not allowed in the far left lanes (the high speed/passing lanes) with other vehicles . Tire certifications are also tighter in California . . ie, no retreads on the front steering, cert'd caps allowed on the drivers . . and almost anything that doesn't look bad on the rears . . . . as long as they carry a certification as to worthyness . On most trips to-from Snowflake/San Jacinto, I might see three or four alligators . . . but never really any the require serious manuevers to miss alltogether . I DO see what I call "burn-downs" where a motorhome has gone on fire and burned to the wheels . . . . . . leaving a black scorch on the road, and depending on how old the mark is; the melted glass and plastic from the fire . Last time I went that way, I counted over 150 burn-downs in 500 miles . . . . . usually near or at the top of inclines over a mile long . As to guns . . I've only had one pulled on me about three times so far . . . and every time, I literally fed the perps their own guns down their throat . I so seriously beat a guy with his own Smith & Wesson once, that the police thought they might arrest me for assault and battery . The guy spent a long time in the hospital for concussion and many stitches on his face and head . They never found his nose . I got angry . :mad: See . . it's all not roses and sweet flowers here, but things are not as bad as the rest of the world would think . We still get a dose of wild west justice once in a while . Statistically, there are bad times to be out and about in the inner city . . for instance . . . . . . . . A Friday night with: a full moon, the first week of the month (welfare checks just arrived), air temperatures at 89F, humidity at 70-80%, at the beginning of a three-day holiday . (add, high gas prices for current motive) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . being in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Miami, Seattle, Boston, Tampa, Cleveland, or LA .	SurferJoe46 (51)
478912	2006-08-19 08:59:00	Sony, like all other companies, will try it on. I once took a Sony mains unit (for a highend Walkman) into a "Sony" shop because it had stopped working. Standard response, nothing repairable, have to buy a new one. Took the old one home, prised it open (how do you undo those patent screws?). What did I find inside? A mains fuse...one of those glass ones that cost cents to replace. Shysters!!!!! Martynz	martynz (5445)
478913	2006-08-19 15:55:00	Sony, like all other companies, will try it on . I once took a Sony mains unit (for a highend Walkman) into a "Sony" shop because it had stopped working . Standard response, nothing repairable, have to buy a new one . Took the old one home, prised it open (how do you undo those patent screws?) . What did I find inside? A mains fuse . . . one of those glass ones that cost cents to replace . Shysters!!!!! Martynz . . . and I WAS being counselled to be more understanding (my added word) and charitable (another added word, by me): "Steady on, why all the aggro Joe? Sony make very good products as a rule, and the fact that no (or very few) other-brand devices are self-immolating suggests that it takes a combination of Dell's battery management and the Sony manufacturing flaw (if that's what it is) to set the world on fire . There is very little risk of anybody being killed by a burning laptop . " . . . . . . hrumph!!!! This goes into my "I HATE SONY" bag which is bursting at the seams .	SurferJoe46 (51)
478914	2006-08-19 21:41:00	Maybe you could pistol-whip them?	Metla (12)
478915	2006-08-19 22:47:00	....or start a poll: "What ONE Company do you hate the most? 1) ANY NZ ISP 2) Microsoft (the company) 3) The Jaguar/Ford/Simca/Fiat Consortium 4) Microsoft (the country) 5) Exxon/Mobil Oil 6) Microsoft (the owner) 7) Sony	SurferJoe46 (51)
478916	2006-08-20 04:12:00	heh....why waste your time hating any company?	Metla (12)
478917	2006-08-20 04:17:00	Sad Joe, sad . Hating a company seems pointless and narrow minded to me . It is so much more positive to say, for example, "I prefer Panasonic" and leave Sony, or Sharp, or Toshiba, or whoever to the marketplace for their fate to be decided . What could a company possibly do to you to cause you to work up enough angst to hate them? What could Sony ever have done? They make well engineered products, are innovative, and occasionally bomb . So what? The world would be a better place if people just expressed simple preferences; like preferring catholicism rather than hating protestants, preferring Islam instead of condemning all other faiths as unbelievers, preferring GM instead of being anti-Ford . Once you start hating trivial things that you can avoid by choice, the next preference seems to be size of your handgun or the killing power of your arsenal . Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused:	Billy T (70)
478918	2006-08-20 15:04:00	Maybe so, Billy . . . but we are having a different problem in our "space-time continuim" here in the US . Many people are afraid of the insidious hacking away of personal freedoms and right to some sort of non-intervention by the gvt . . . and this starts at the ground level of businesses that provide such info about things like DRM's and pharming names and info about us . Sony is the cutting, if not bleeding edge of this technology . . . there are others . . . like Qualcom and other spy-in-your-pantry types that sound out and report to "authorities" anyone who uses the words "shoebomb" and "airplane" in the same sentence . Remember that we are under the "Homeland Security" act here, which generally translates to martial law . I was having a "knee-jerk" day . . . sorry .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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