22 Aug
2000
22 Aug
'00
4:05 a.m.
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
Are you sure that's safe? Not just for the
machine, but also for the
public. It only takes one idiot to break a computer, but an idiot could
bankrupt you just by doing something unfathomably stupid like connecting
himself to the mains through your display.
Well, maybe you've come up with some amazing way to make electricity bolt
out the front of a monitor, Dick. But last I checked, this has never
happened, or at least has not happened enough to be a major epidemic.
Considering there are millions of monitors out there, you'd think that
this would happen a considerable number of times, but alas, it has not, so
there goes another one of your characteristically stupid theories.
Don't you think you've got a responsibility to
protect your entire
collection by preventing the idiot from having you closed down just by
killing himself with his own stupidity, for which the courts will surely
blame you?
You're right. When I open my collection to the public, I'll post a sign:
No Dicks Allowed
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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