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From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans)
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
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In article <slrn4nlfam.2lm.root@marsgrp.tamu.edu> semon@comp.tamu.edu writes:
>On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:47:27 -0700, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>>Stephen Knilans wrote:
>
> >
> >There is no such thing as luck.  If you had bothered to obtain
> >technical documentation rather than the word of a salesman prior
> >to your purchase, you would never have been in the bad situation.
> >Caveat Emptor.

I have seen DOCUMENTATION that is WRONG!

> >] >But I have a feeling it would be lost on you, since you want
> >] >to impose moral restrictions on the way in which the universe
> >] >is allowed to operate.
> >] 
> >] So you WANT things to be immoral! That explains a LOT.
> >
> >This is a mistake by you, not a mistake by
> >the universe.

I never accused the universe of any mistakes.  

>	Get a grip and dump this thread. Nobody's holding a gun
>	to anyone else's head at the video card mall. I certainly 
>	do not feel sorry for some one that buys something before 
>	realizing what they are buying, especially if you do it
>	a second time expecting different results.
>
As I said in the last post, I planned to anyway.  Heck, YOU are the only 
one I have written to for a while, and I DIDN'T originate this thread.

Did you really enjoy this?  Somehow, I think you did.  Maybe it is the
weak insults, the pretending to be such and such, or the announcer 
post.